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Comment My plan for a terror attack. By Billy. (Score 1) 412

How about you look up the public schedules for passenger trains, then go to a big, tall bridge and pry up some tracks? Don't forget to jumper a fat wire across the break, as many trains use electric track monitoring systems. Not only will a train full of passengers plummet to their death, but now countries like the US will panic, and install thousands of monitoring stations covering every mile of track. The economic cost will be staggering and passed onto the train companies, in turn, raising prices dramatically. Shipments and rail travel will grind to a halt, crippling the economy even further. Terrorist WIN! Just like china bankrupt itself building the great wall (only to be taken down by one poorly paid, inept guard), the US will spend so much time and money being paranoid it will crumble and fall. (yes, i know Australia has next to no rail service)

Comment Re:BMW has been playing with this -NOT VANOS (Score 1) 775

Honda's 'oil actuation system' engages a second rocker arm that hits a higher camshaft via a pin that locks the secondary arm to the primary arm. Remember that a camshaft is one shape. Not variable, it just has a second lobe for higher rpm. I have had Honda factory training and am quite familiar with the system. The whole point of true electronic acutation is to create a complex map of valve operation that varies in relation to engine load, rpm, throttle, fuel octane, air temperature and a million other variables. Camshafts have a million profile combinations including the amount of overlap (both open at the same time), lift, duration, lift speed, but are limited to a profile that is 'one size fits all' and a compromise, a second if it has a second higher lift cam, and maybe total cam timing if your lucky. By allowing a computer to control all the aspects you can do a lot in performance and economy work that is physically impossible with a mechanical drivetrain. Just like modern fuel management does so much more than a simple mechanical carb. The ability to run different profiles with software will allow for simple custom tuning of the 'personality. of the motor. Someone said the new C-class has it. WRONG. It has camshafts with variable valve timing. Allows 1-2 parameters of control for the valves. True electronic actuation allows infinite control. All I have seen is prototypes, like fuel cell cars (race cars don't count). But it's such a nice dream.

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