Well, maybe DPS won't, but CHP will. CHP regularly looks for stuff like farm diesel or illegal nitrous kits. Further, light trucks aren't commercial vehicles, I'm talking about automobile-class pickup trucks. You're thinking of heavy trucks, which use heavy-duty engines and brakes. These systems don't lend themselves well to the same kind of control that the cute little engines in autos do. But in the grey area there are light pickups, which often have car engines in them and which most certainly can have ABS, TC, YC, etc. But they aren't required to, because lobbying.

Well no, the more gears the transmission has, the better you can stay in the power band. And automatics usually have more speeds.

Wait, what? Now you're confusing yourself.

It doesn't waste fuel if you do it in an automatic, either. The TC stays locked in the majority of conditions. You are 100% wrong about it staying locked under full power, which it in fact does in pretty much every case. It's not about that at all, it's about accelerator position vs. demand. The TC on my 1992 Ford F250 7.3 with E40D stays locked up hard as I go up a hill with a load of wet firewood. The TC on my 1982 300SD stays locked as I go around a corner with the hammer down completely. And these are fucking antiques by modern standards; in the USA, the Mercedes literally is.

The math isn't even as simple as you make it out to be. And the fact is that in some cars, the auto gets better mileage than the manual, because it permits staying in the power band more often.

The questions stands. Where is the .pdf?

So what? Many people never do that. Also, people often abuse their clutch when applying a lot of power.

Small cars have CVTs now, completely different in design and also enabling the engine to remain in its power band more often. Traditional automatics typically have more speeds than manual gearboxes now, except for the heavy, complex, and expensive DSGs, which likewise permits greater efficiency.

Actually, peak efficiency is usually attained at about 80% of peak torque output.

Not at all. In fact, the losses increase more than linearly in both cases. The automatic is simply more complex. You have to take the lubricant into account in both cases. But there's also clutching to consider.

As well, in the near future KERS is going to become more common, with the TC replaced entirely with an electric motor which also replaces the alternator and the starter. It's getting cheaper and it's been proven out on all sizes of vehicle. The motor can also have magnetic lockup, which takes surprisingly little power to maintain but which won't wear out like a clutch.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Completely common in USD.

That encourages spending, which is a good thing.

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Those systems tend to include a Windows machine. If the vendor doesn't promise updates, you have to treat it as a black box and prepare to exclude it from your network in the future, with an air gap. Sad, but predictable. You can compare to earlier CNC machines which ran DOS. Those didn't try to do as much, though, so the OS wasn't as much of a problem.

"...because I certainly haven't. I'd prefer to spread FUD."

Right, we've established that anecdotes are not data and that iOS devices also crash, so meanwhile you're still sharing useless anecdotes. Actually, it's not useless: When the Facebook app shit all over people's contacts, both stealing contacts and overwriting them, I said anyone would have to be a complete fucking idiot to actually run a facebook app on their device. Thanks for the heads-up.

Everything in the cosmos is traveling at roughly 17,500 MPH if you pick the right point of reference for each body.

Yes, but we're talking about acceleration, not cruising.

Just like manual transmissions.

There's no way to know unless we know the vehicle.

Stop pretending like lockup torque converters don't exist. They do.

A Mercedes from the 1980s has that. Maybe you should look at a better car instead of a newer car.

Welcome to the 1990s, when that started to show up on vehicles. Our 2000 Astro LS has the same feature. It changes the shift points, that's about it.

Sigh. It says right in the owner's manual that the cruise control isn't for that.

Nonsense! Also, even many cheap routers do packet inspection and sometimes even packet mangling now. Virtually all of them have some means to get a prompt. Many of them are running Linux and you can load binaries into their memory via tftp and host attacks from them directly. Further, there have already been many useful attacks on these consumer-level firewall products; some of them have been as pathetic as exploiting default passwords on maintenance interfaces left open to the internet by default, others not.

It can be used to capture traffic from the local network, too, if you're crafty.

You're funny, but you make no points of substance.

Confidence in the USD is falling. The only truly substantive difference between USD and Bitcoin for the user is the confidence level. And confidence in the USD is falling in part because of deliberate manipulation of the currency by The Fed. It's quite rational to believe that supporting alternate currencies is itself a rational act.

You may have heard before that the government which can do anything for you can do anything to you. It's still true. The government which controls the currency wields extraordinary power. If you believed that they would wield this power for good, then you would have a point — but you'd be provably delusional.

When it comes to the cars, you'd be right. But when it comes to the trucks the metaphor breaks down entirely because they aren't required to have any of that shit. It's only passenger cars. Light trucks are required to have some of it now, but not all.