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by trashbat
Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:21 pm
Forum: Technology
Topic: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
Replies: 44
Views: 44016

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...
by trashbat
Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:14 pm
Forum: Technology
Topic: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
Replies: 44
Views: 44016

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...
by trashbat
Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:11 am
Forum: Technology
Topic: Fuel Additives - When is it too much?
Replies: 44
Views: 44016

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...
by trashbat
Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:25 am
Forum: Technology
Topic: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
Replies: 17
Views: 19188

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 ...
by trashbat
Tue Feb 16, 2016 10:19 pm
Forum: Technology
Topic: Philosophy of programming a driverless car. Kill or be killed.
Replies: 17
Views: 19188

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...
by trashbat
Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:53 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Would you?
Replies: 47
Views: 43995

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...
by trashbat
Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:00 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Would you?
Replies: 47
Views: 43995

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 ...
by trashbat
Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Old ADUK...oh dear
Replies: 188
Views: 171230

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...

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