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by Pyrolol
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:43 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Braking
Replies: 237
Views: 320414

Re: Braking

I used to subscribe to the 'as much light as possible' school, but I've found that some modern cars have headlights so powerful on main that you can't tell if an oncoming car is round the corner by noticing their lights. It's still a positive overall, but it's quite frustrating to lose a source of i...
by Pyrolol
Wed Mar 16, 2016 1:53 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Leaving your car in gear when parked
Replies: 41
Views: 42173

Re: Leaving your car in gear when parked

‘...]and the wheels turned towards the kerb.’ If you fail to do this in San Francisco, you get a ticket. Of course, they have some fearsome hills there. Presumably you mean in Park though, since most of them are autos? Yes, people here are very good at steering towards the kerb: where vehicles are ...
by Pyrolol
Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:49 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Diesel now bad?
Replies: 29
Views: 26153

Re: Diesel now bad?

There's more to pollution than CO2 (which isn't harmful to people at reasonable concentrations anyway - you breathe it out all the time; just a contributor to global warming). Diesels owe some of their superior economy to lean burn, but that comes with higher emissions, particularly of nitrogen oxid...
by Pyrolol
Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:07 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Would you?
Replies: 47
Views: 43510

Re: Would you?

I would want to gain more than 2 seconds, and to reach a peak speed of less than 90. If your maths is right, my judgement that I would have taken the overtake may have been wrong. Are you sure it is? Empirical experience suggests that if I have 16 seconds to where the view disappears I would have e...
by Pyrolol
Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:16 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Would you?
Replies: 47
Views: 43510

Re: Would you?

... (that's 24(6+2) = 380 - 6v: 24 being the target speed in m/s during the actual overtake portion: about 54mph) The maths is beyond me. Are you saying you overtake at only 54 mph? Apologies, I use target to refer to the vehicle being overtook (which is doing ~54mph during the part where one would...
by Pyrolol
Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:49 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Would you?
Replies: 47
Views: 43510

Re: Would you?

I'd say about 380m worth of the oncoming lane (counting to more like 32 seconds at an average ~48mph - it's a bit hard to judge the end point from the video). I like numbers: apologies to those who don't for what follows. Inevitably I've approximated a bunch of things; I think it's a pretty good mod...
by Pyrolol
Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:14 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Avoiding BGOL around town
Replies: 75
Views: 65204

Re: Avoiding BGOL around town

As far as the choice of gear goes, I seek to balance the gear to the amount of throttle. If I'm off the accelerator entirely I'm happy with the highest available gear (4th or 5th down a slight hill at 30 is fine), but if anything near full throttle is required I'd like to be at about 1/3 revs or abo...
by Pyrolol
Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:01 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tesla X?
Replies: 37
Views: 32527

Re: Tesla X?

It feels a bit unfair to compare the Tesla Model X's environmental credentials with those of the average car, when it's really more of a Cayenne Turbo competitor.
by Pyrolol
Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:49 am
Forum: Technology
Topic: pulled over for going too slowly
Replies: 5
Views: 7255

Re: pulled over for going too slowly

The particular example linked above was of a vehicle that wasn't a 'proper car' and therefore legally limited to 25mph, and only allowed on certain roads (including the above). (Specifically, it was a 'neighborhoor electric vehicle'; which doesn't have to go through the same approval process a conve...
by Pyrolol
Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:00 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Issues with our car...
Replies: 29
Views: 25359

Re: Issues with our car...

Yeah, engine mounts was my thought too.

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