Probably because they've engineered the crap out of this car.

I wonder how the fuel used by this thing compares to the fuel wasted every morning in Los Angeles by idling cars in severe traffic jams...

They say it's "cheating enabled by the internet", but how far doesn that definition go? When I use Wolfram Alpha to solve integrals that I can't be bothered to spend 15 minutes on, is that "cybercheating"?

It's not really increased power, either. It's increased intensity, which is power/area.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi also both rely on trade secrets to keep their products unique and marketable. Would you have them publish their recipes in the favor of "market transparency"?

If your car's tires are specified to 147mph, then yes, they can go that fast. They're required to last at least 10 minutes at the rated speed. Please stop using bad car analogies.

This ad by Subaru is one of the best I've seen in ages... Simply because the creative effort put into it is matched only by a few. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3X9hJpbDo

I can't help but wonder if they didn't make early drafts as terrible as possible to see what we, the people, would cry out the most about. While there are simpler explanations, the obvious being that they responded in response to the public, simple explanations don't always work well in politics. Ok, fine, I'll take off the tin foil hat now...

I think it's fair to say that most campus police forces are poorly utilized. This is just an exceptionally bad case.

I may have missed it, but when did 3D printing get cheap? I've always known it as being a rather expensive, time-intensive process. I would think that would become a major barrier, unless they've made some significant advancement on that front (which they may have).

This is hardly a reasonable argument; when is the last time you tried to carry a full graphing calculator in your pocket? Just because you can jam it in there doesn't mean it's a good idea for you to do so.

My TI-89 can run a whole semester on one charge of its 4 AAA batteries, and I'm an engineering student, so I frequently use it 2-3 hours a day. Of course, you still want to carry spares. Last semester I had to take an exam with an old backup Casio scientific calculator because the 89's batteries were dead.

Suing a researcher for producing small quantities of your product in order to use it in his research wouldn't make financial sense. So unless the patent holder had a personal vendetta against the researcher, they wouldn't act on the infringement.

Both words can be used as either a verb or noun. The specific usage here is still wrong, but if we're going to be grammar trolls, let's do it right.

Both are forms of heat engines, so both comparisons would be in converting thermal energy into kinetic energy.

In the US, at least, the traditional braking system still has to be powerful enough to slow down the car without any concerns of failure, so a loss of electrical motor braking may be noticeable, but would only be likely to be catastrophic if you were pushing the limit and counting on that extra force to be there. And those situations already happen with traditional ICE cars when something in the driveline fails.