Oh, and thank you.

ooh interesting . . . I had no idea. The specs look good but I'm not so sure about Infiniti - Nissan makes some great cars but I've never liked anything about the looks of the Infiniti line and something about their interiors has always irked me. :-( I'll check it out though!

I want a BMW ActiveHybrid, or a Saab hybrid. Unfortunately with the second death of SAAB, the hybrid 9-3 eAWD project was killed off in favor of pure EVs alongside the existing 9-3 ICE model. In the case of BMW, the ActiveHybrid3 is available only as RWD, not xDrive (AWD).

So, for an all wheel drive sedan I'm sticking with ICE and trading in my Saab on either a used 9-3 XWD or a new 335 xDrive. I wish someone made the hybrid I want (an AWD/XWD sports sedan), but they don't. It seems the only AWD hybrid options right now are either extremely high end exotic hybrids or SUVs - the former are not in my budget and not practical for NH winters anyway, and I do not want an SUV for a daily driver.

I have two different Crucial mSATA drives - one runs VMware in one workstation (well, "server"), and the other runs virtualbox in another. Each is a different generation SSD - and no problems. I've also shipped many to customers in servers (real servers on RAID controllers, not workstations posing as servers). Not one failure.

> Fuck Jenny McCarthy. With a 50-year-old telephone pole that's had linemen up and down it with spiked shoes thousands of times. Soaked in gasoline. On fire. Up the ass.

I think she's already done that movie.

Finally - EVs will become practical. Hopefully this leads them toward working together to develop ultracapacitors that charge in seconds to a couple of minutes so it can be a true ICE replacement, and allow for a small swappable ultracapacitor so that if your battery goes flat a few miles from a charging station all you need is a state trooper or AAA and exchange a capacitor to get the car going long enough to reach a charger. Once you've achieved that you've largely eliminated the need for ICE (except possibly as a backup generator - like the Volt, i3, i8, etc.). Ideally you'd have an iX-style hybrid, except using it primarily as an EV unless you drive out to remote areas.

whoosh!!

Why not? Maybe because it's been proven by peer-reviewed clinical studies that sleep deprivation impairs people at least as much as alcohol does.

It would. All too often on and off ramps are actually banked the wrong way, and same goes for highway curves. Ideally it should be banked such that if you have rack-and-pinion steering, the car will naturally follow the correct path with little user intervention. Unfortunately thanks to construction by the lowest bidder, we'll never see true autobahn-style freeway systems here.

This regulation makes sense because it holds companies responsible and avoids further polluting an environment we've already damaged.

Contrast that to idiots who want to block off-shore wind farms because it's "unsightly as I cruise in my yacht" and avoid new LNG depots because of unsightly tanks and extending gas pipelines to small towns despite it being a greener option than burning diesel to heat homes.

Quite a few sportscars have done this passively for decades - the first generation RX-7 was known for this. The difference is that passive suspensions on street cars do this only for low G-loads until the high CG overcomes the suspension and causes the weight to shift the lean outward, when the feature would be most beneficial to keep the car biased toward oversteer.

The thing is when this feature is most critical (high G loads) any vehicle where the CG is above the suspension will shift toward learning away from the turn. This means pretty much every street car, including those with the most advanced passive suspensions. Making this active is not non-obvious but it's about damned time someone is using active suspension to do this on street cars.

First generation RX-7 did this passively at low to moderate G-loads but not at high G loads where it is more critical to bias toward oversteer. It's about time manufacturers are designing vehicles to do this actively.

I've love to see them re-release the Commander Keen series, as open source. I miss those games. :-)

Can you say malfeasance? It's a massive liability that I'm surprised they're willing to take on.