Only difference is that we do all we can to make sure that autos are safe for the operator and those around them, can't say the same for guns
Suppose gun companies bragged about guns DESIGNED to break the law and kill innocent people.!!! Musk makes manson look like a choir boy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...manufacturing/
Elon Musk, the Chief Executive of electric car maker Tesla, unveiled a surprise new vehicle on Thursday night - a roadster that he said would be the "fastest production car ever" made.
Capable of going from 0-60 mph in 1.9 seconds, the Tesla Roadster would be the first such car ever to break the two second mark, the entrepreneur said at a launch near Los Angeles.
He also said it would climb from 0 to 100 mph in 4.2 seconds and clear a quarter mile in 8.9 seconds. "This will the first time that any production car has broken 9 seconds in the quarter mile," he said
Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!
THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!
There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)
Only difference is that we do all we can to make sure that autos are safe for the operator and those around them, can't say the same for guns
that actually sounds awesome. do it. ! my old '73 mercury cougar xr7 barely broke the 9 second in the eighth mile.
Even so, Come, Lord JesusI do not participate in delusion count me out
"Psychopath Elon Musk" Chicken Little
Those that abuse the language as Chicken Little has here, damage the language by weakening it.psychopath (sì´ke-pàth´) noun
A person with an antisocial personality disorder, especially one manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior.
[Back-formation from psychopathic.] *
For if Elon Musk is a "psychopath", then aren't we all?
Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer and industrialist; and btw, also literally a "rocket scientist". He's an asset to the nation, if not all humanity.
And while muscle-cars might seem passé to some, an all electric muscle car seems like a fun idea.
One of the thrills to a muscle-car enthusiast is the throaty growl of the engine.
An all electric muscle-car would write a new chapter on that.
In addition, there is some political stir about making electric cars noisier, because some pedestrians don't hear them, particularly in urban environments, (a persuasive argument against jay walking).
Interesting to see how all that plays out.
"Psychopath Elon Musk"
- piffle -
* Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!
THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!
There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)
Aren't you embarrassed airing your personal issues in public
"you blithering idiot." TK #5
I deduce we have never met."Are you insane???" TK
I've never reviewed your profile, or your résumé.
But from your #5 I deduce the following:
- On the emotion to logic spectrum, you not only lean heavily toward emotion, but you do so to the exclusion of logic.
- You do not have a college degree in engineering.
- Your posts tilt toward extremisms.
One at a time:
Several reasons."Why do we make cars that will do twice the speed limit?."
Your Utopian view of marginally adequate vehicles already exists, like these little beauties in Jakarta.
But in addition to not meeting U.S. safety or pollution standards, they also bog down going uphill. And Americans are too impatient for that.
In addition, running most automotive engines at full throttle all the time tends to wear them out quicker. They last longer if they're not at their limit most of the time.
For emergencies.
To give passengers something to do."Why do we put internet access in cars.?"
To give stranded motorists additional communications options, in a breakdown, collision, or other emergency.
For directions, or other information (nearest restaurant, fuel station, hotel, etc.)
The opposite is true."The car makers design cars to get in crashes"
Cars are much safer today than they were just a few decades ago.
It's more than just the collapsible steering column, seatbelts, and air-bags. It's also:
radial tires instead of bias ply
4 wheel power disc brakes
anti-lock brakes
stability control
In my lifetime, stopping distance have been cut nearly in half by these multiple incremental advancements. Yet the posted speed limits don't change.
Chevy doesn't close its budget gap doing collision repair."since that makes them more money. Car crashes mean car sales. THINK, you blithering idiot."
Manufacturers prefer their $money up front, selling cars better designed to avoid crashes, than causing them.
That's not only market driven. It's also government mandated, NTSB, etc.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Electric allows that to happen. On demand instant full power. As efficient as exotic sports cars are, they can't match it. Anyone with a decent power drill knows why.
FUCK THE POLICE (11-18-2017)
reductiones ad absurdum"Electric allows that to happen. On demand instant full power. As efficient as exotic sports cars are, they can't match it. Anyone with a decent power drill knows why." M #10
One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower
than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.
It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA
Top Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro
methane per second. A fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate
but with 25% less energy being produced.
A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the
dragster's supercharger.
With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive,
the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition.
Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by
which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are
determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front
temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the
stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water
vapor by the searing heat of the exhaust gases.
Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of
an arc welder in each cylinder.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After
halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust
valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel
flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro immediately builds up in
the affected cylinder and then explodes with sufficient force to blow
cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
In order to exceed 300 mph in 4. 5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an
average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before half-track),
the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.
Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed
reading this one sentence.
Top fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under
load.
The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm.
Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and
for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second.
The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.428 seconds for
the quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona , CA ). The top speed
record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony
Schumacher, at Hebron , OH ).
Putting all of this into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter 'twin-turbo' powered
Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and
ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the
advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears
and blast across the starting line and pass the dragster at an honest 200
mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment..
The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down
hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and
within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the
finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200
mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed
you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Those Top Fuel engines are producing in excess of 10,000 horsepower now.
The redline is 8500 RPM, too.
Also, they only run 1000 feet, not the traditional 1320 (ever since Scott Kalitta was killed).
Anything else you want to know about Top Fuel engines?
ETA; The top speed is held by a Top Fuel Funny Car at 339+ mph (at 1000 feet).
Last edited by RB 60; 11-18-2017 at 09:50 AM.
Thanks R6,
I don't have a date, or source for the above, but found it interesting when I originally found it, however dated it may be. Any idea how long ago it was originally written?
The obvious question is, in the foreseeable future, will there ever be a self-contained electric (meaning not connected by cable to a nuclear power plant) that can beat such racers?
I'm guessing, with current battery technology, the energy density is simply too low.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
But we also have mandatory seat belt laws, air bags, inspection requirements, registration, liscenses, liability insurance, etc., etc.,etc., guns, none of the above, we got to be the only developed nation in the world that makes it easy for a wannabe mass murderer to act out his wishes
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