I have a cheap '90s Japanese sports coupe and it does 100mph no problem. With the stock suspension it was like sitting on your couch at home watching TV. With the coilovers now, you can feel the transition between sections of highway that were paved separately but it's still easy to control.
Wow, looks nice. I wonder why Lotus never took advantage of this exemption? They could sell an extra-light sports car locally and export them for track use.
Well sure they're safer, but instead of settling on a safety level the regulations have arbitrarily become much tighter over the years. Will there ever be "good enough?" I wouldn't be upset if the increasing safety standards at least didn't (vastly) outpace the development of technologies that can realize them without impacting performance or cost.
I didn't say it was obvious. It's stupid and therefore I would hope nobody else would come up with this idea, even though it's quite simple and uses existing technologies. I guess it's novel in it's stupidity.
Huh, it caught fire because owners let the oil run out and the engine ate itself? And people were upset over this? What's next, complaining that cars don't stop if you never change the brake pads?
If a fragile car hits you it should do less damage to your car. Unless safety regulations limit the weight and chassis stiffness of other vehicles, but since semis and H1s are driving around I guess they don't.
Actually not a good example, the ever-increasing safety regulations have reduced car performance dramtically by effectively mandating an increase in weight (unless you use costly exotic materials). Many motorsport enthusiasts debate the creation of an "ultralight vehicle class" allowing lightweight cars that don't meet safety regulations to be mass-produced. Right now the only way to skirt the safety regulations, apart from buying an old car (there is a thriving market for many old lightweight cars...try buying an AE86, AW11 or CRX these days) is with a kit car or custom-build car.
You can do all kind of mods without interfering with the black box. Any vehicles made in the last 5 years or so are likely to have them. They can be integrated into the ECU or the airbag sensor or could be a separate unit.
This is why you should assume that the value of your car insurance is only as a piece of paper to satisfy any cops who pull you over, and as such you should not crash into things.
This is why you remove the black box as soon as you buy the car. I'm a person who's more likely to benefit from the black box data, but I'd rather not wait until insurance companies are collecting the information remotely from the vehicle to dynamically adjust my rates, as they do with the tracking modules they're handing out now.
It's actually quite a good idea. If you forget your password you're not screwed, since you can unlock your device when you get home.
It's a good idea if you want joke security, and the passphrase screen most phones have is poor enough. I hope they won't allow this authentication method to bypass any full-disk encryption. It will be common knowledge among thieves and black hats that you can unlock an iShiny using the included power adapter that's usually plugged into the device when it's laying around. What could possibly go wrong?
I'd planned to do some research into the likelihood of CRC32 collisions, obviously it had to be somewhat higher than SHA1 with the hashes being so much shorter. If it's that likely then I'll have it do an SHA1 comparison to confirm that the CRC32 match isn't just a collision. This second check should also bring the chance of a file being incorrectly deduplicated due to a collision as close to zero as possible, so the script will give even more than the certainty of SHA1 with nearly the speed and low CPU usage of CRC32.
The application isn't sure to be disk-bound or network-bound especially in the age of SSDs, and even then, it's better not to make an app that wastes power by assaulting the CPU.
If it's trivial and non novel then why is no one doing it or previously put a patent on it?
Well apart from the fact that this particular idea is stupid (thus, nobody doing it), sometimes things just luckily don't get patented, like "fuel cells on a computer" and "fuel cells on a cell phone" which were both shockingly not patented up until this year. Somehow even among swarms of lawyers, a few conceivable ideas go unpatented sometimes. Shocking, I know.
This idea is both trivial (passing data to a power adapter which attaches to a port that can also pass data? Wow not like half the USB-charged devices on the planet do that!) and non-novel (acts as a security key like the metric shit-tons of USB fobs that have been on the market over the last decade).
After doing the first fly-around to see if it had any titanium orbital bombardment rods or nuclear missiles strapped onto it, they've since been watching it carefully to see if the empty space station module will transform into some kind of giant gun or fighting robot..or at least unfurl a communist flag or something.
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I have a cheap '90s Japanese sports coupe and it does 100mph no problem. With the stock suspension it was like sitting on your couch at home watching TV. With the coilovers now, you can feel the transition between sections of highway that were paved separately but it's still easy to control.
Wow, looks nice. I wonder why Lotus never took advantage of this exemption? They could sell an extra-light sports car locally and export them for track use.
Well sure they're safer, but instead of settling on a safety level the regulations have arbitrarily become much tighter over the years. Will there ever be "good enough?" I wouldn't be upset if the increasing safety standards at least didn't (vastly) outpace the development of technologies that can realize them without impacting performance or cost.
I didn't say it was obvious. It's stupid and therefore I would hope nobody else would come up with this idea, even though it's quite simple and uses existing technologies. I guess it's novel in it's stupidity.
Huh, it caught fire because owners let the oil run out and the engine ate itself? And people were upset over this? What's next, complaining that cars don't stop if you never change the brake pads?
If a fragile car hits you it should do less damage to your car. Unless safety regulations limit the weight and chassis stiffness of other vehicles, but since semis and H1s are driving around I guess they don't.
Wait, what was wrong with the Fiero?
And that regulation protects ME from YOU.
Only if you're a pedestrian (ped. crash safety regulations) or a passenger in someone else's car.
Actually not a good example, the ever-increasing safety regulations have reduced car performance dramtically by effectively mandating an increase in weight (unless you use costly exotic materials). Many motorsport enthusiasts debate the creation of an "ultralight vehicle class" allowing lightweight cars that don't meet safety regulations to be mass-produced. Right now the only way to skirt the safety regulations, apart from buying an old car (there is a thriving market for many old lightweight cars...try buying an AE86, AW11 or CRX these days) is with a kit car or custom-build car.
Bazillion? That's around 170kph. Well over any limit in the US but far from a bazillion (I would define "bazillion" as anywhere over 200mph).
You can do all kind of mods without interfering with the black box. Any vehicles made in the last 5 years or so are likely to have them. They can be integrated into the ECU or the airbag sensor or could be a separate unit.
This is why you should assume that the value of your car insurance is only as a piece of paper to satisfy any cops who pull you over, and as such you should not crash into things.
This is why you remove the black box as soon as you buy the car. I'm a person who's more likely to benefit from the black box data, but I'd rather not wait until insurance companies are collecting the information remotely from the vehicle to dynamically adjust my rates, as they do with the tracking modules they're handing out now.
Isn't the upper seatbelt mounting point adjustable? It is on most cars.
That's the only one I can think of (and even then, only if you're old and inflexible).
If you want to keep the airbags it should be possible to swap in a regular airbag trigger sensor from another vehicle.
It's actually quite a good idea. If you forget your password you're not screwed, since you can unlock your device when you get home.
It's a good idea if you want joke security, and the passphrase screen most phones have is poor enough. I hope they won't allow this authentication method to bypass any full-disk encryption. It will be common knowledge among thieves and black hats that you can unlock an iShiny using the included power adapter that's usually plugged into the device when it's laying around. What could possibly go wrong?
I'd planned to do some research into the likelihood of CRC32 collisions, obviously it had to be somewhat higher than SHA1 with the hashes being so much shorter. If it's that likely then I'll have it do an SHA1 comparison to confirm that the CRC32 match isn't just a collision. This second check should also bring the chance of a file being incorrectly deduplicated due to a collision as close to zero as possible, so the script will give even more than the certainty of SHA1 with nearly the speed and low CPU usage of CRC32.
The application isn't sure to be disk-bound or network-bound especially in the age of SSDs, and even then, it's better not to make an app that wastes power by assaulting the CPU.
I thought it just meant it was composed of cells with differing DNA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
If it's trivial and non novel then why is no one doing it or previously put a patent on it?
Well apart from the fact that this particular idea is stupid (thus, nobody doing it), sometimes things just luckily don't get patented, like "fuel cells on a computer" and "fuel cells on a cell phone" which were both shockingly not patented up until this year. Somehow even among swarms of lawyers, a few conceivable ideas go unpatented sometimes. Shocking, I know.
This idea is both trivial (passing data to a power adapter which attaches to a port that can also pass data? Wow not like half the USB-charged devices on the planet do that!) and non-novel (acts as a security key like the metric shit-tons of USB fobs that have been on the market over the last decade).
It was worthless before and it's still worthless now. I'm not even upset that they patented this trivial and non-novel idea.
I'm racist? You're the one assuming the Chinese are inherently incapable of transforming fighting robot technology.
After doing the first fly-around to see if it had any titanium orbital bombardment rods or nuclear missiles strapped onto it, they've since been watching it carefully to see if the empty space station module will transform into some kind of giant gun or fighting robot..or at least unfurl a communist flag or something.
I RTFA'd and still can't find where it says these are cross-species.
Chimeras occur in nature and AFAIK there are no negative health effects so I don't think tissue rejection is an issue...