Comment Re:Car Dealers should ask why they're being bypass (Score 1) 155
Have you not heard of Van Bortel?
Have you not heard of Van Bortel?
Longer, if you think about it. Before you were distinct from your mother, you were a parasite within her. Before that, you were an egg cell in her ovaries. She was born with the egg that later became you intact, so you are as old as your mother is. But what is true for you is true for her; she is as old as her mother. You are as old as your grandmother. You are as old as the predecessors of humanity. You are an ancient entity that has periodically (no pun intended) remade itself based on external genetic material.
It has a frickin' laser on an articulated arm.That's a half hour, from problem presenting itself, to NASA telling it what to do, to Curiosity going about its merry business.
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I believe you have forgotten about that German fellow... What was his name again?
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Schools are required to act in good faith in loco parentis, but IMHO and possibly legally they're required to bring the parents in when police and charges become involved.
I propose that the weight savings will result in trucks that are more heavily loaded, not lighter trucks going down the road. Logistics is expensive, and if you're running into legal weight limits, a lighter trailer cal allow heavier loads --> fewer trips --> greater savings in driver time, trucks, maintenance, fuel, etc.
This may be negligible due to the low density of packaged consumer products and volume limitations.
Similar systems have been in the Nissan GTR, as well as (I believe) the R34 Skyline GTR. Aftermarket telemetry systems or recording systems are popular with trackday enthusiasts etc.. This is not new, but it's interesting.
... that just because something sold well, doesn't mean it's worth having.
The spec for many auto parts and system tests is operation (startup) at -40 deg.
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.