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- Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:21 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 44328
Re: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
The biggest issue that the moment is inlet valve carbon build up on direct injection vehicles. Both car manufactures and the oil companies are working to try to find a solution to the problem. The problem of course is because of a lack of a wash effect from the fuel. Unless you could produce an oil...
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:14 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 44328
Re: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
By the way, I stopped using supermarket fuel several years ago, and now only use normal grade diesel from BP, Esso or Shell, which appears to give better fuel economy than the supermarket stuff. I'm fairly sure Esso is exactly the same stuff as supermarket fuel. BP probably the same. Shell is at le...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:11 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 44328
Re: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
By the way, I stopped using supermarket fuel several years ago, and now only use normal grade diesel from BP, Esso or Shell, which appears to give better fuel economy than the supermarket stuff. I'm fairly sure Esso is exactly the same stuff as supermarket fuel. BP probably the same. Shell is at le...
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:25 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19323
Re: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
Guessing, the programming will be based heavily around speed 'choice', with 'slow down' as the default response to any potentially surprising situation. Not a bad bit of advice for all of us, really. Probably - because it is after all a continuation of the trend for things like adaptive cruise and ...
- Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:19 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19323
Re: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
This is a made up problem. Noone is ever - in the foreseeable future of autonomous systems - going to program cars to make value judgements. It's always going to be best effort avoidance, which is probably going to be maximum braking for the most part, with possibly a few set piece routines within g...
- Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:53 am
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Would you?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 44135
Re: Would you?
The overtake is off in large part because the driver has made it off - a laid back follow that inherently precludes the opportunity. What do you think you would be doing differently, and how much time do you think it would gain you? If I wanted to overtake in those circumstances, I would have close...
- Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:00 am
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Would you?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 44135
Re: Would you?
About 3 of those are 'needed' to get out, possibly less to get in if you've dropped the left one, leaving very few to actually get the speed differential necessary and the relative distance required. That's why I've called it a 'No'. But much like Irish directions, if I was going there, I wouldn't ...
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Old ADUK...oh dear
- Replies: 188
- Views: 171762
Re: Old ADUK...oh dear
I don't post much any more, so you can freely ignore me, but my £0.02 worth of rambling is thus. I find there's rarely such an unedifying spectacle as a group of comfortably-off, middle aged straight white men trying to play the arbiters of what people outside of that description should or shouldn't...