They think that the costs of certifying the good ones (hint: EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE,) as well as the costs of training dealers to service them, versus... American preferences... would not make it worth it.
If certification were cheaper, then things may be different.
And Mazda's been developing starter-less stop-start technology, that looks at where the engine is in its rotation, to determine the correct cylinder to fire some fuel and a spark in, to start the engine without using a starter.
There are numerous reports of pickup trucks going from 12-14 MPG to 18-20 MPG just by removing the emissions controls. (Part of that is because of the badly engineered emission control systems, but it's far from all of it.)
The trick is, what emissions do you want to control? Particulate matter and NOx are the ones that the US wants to control, and reducing NOx basically requires making the engine less efficient. (And then it requires burning more fuel in a catalyst instead of in the engine to burn off the particulate matter and trapped NOx.)
If you want to control CO2, like Europe does, then you need to lower fuel consumption. If you just care about lowering particulate matter, lowering fuel consumption will probably work. But NOx is a weird beast. The hotter things get (read: the more efficient things get,) the more NOx you generate.
Your 2001 Golf TDI also has a far more thermodynamically efficient engine than that 1985 Golf.
A 2001 Polo weighs about as much as said 1985 Golf, and a 2001 Polo 1.9 TDI (same drivetrain as a 2004-2006 US-spec Golf) was rated at 3.9 L/100km (60 MPG) on the highway, and 5.5 L/100km (43 MPG) in the city.
It's when less horsepower = !fun (as opposed to less horsepower = less fun) that there's a problem.
I'll use my 1992 Miata as an example for that. 116 horsepower new, something like 90 left with the worn out engine with a partially dead cylinder.
Still fun as hell (until the timing belt tensioner broke, but that's another story.) It'd still be fun with a 50 hp engine, because what makes it fun isn't the engine, it's the chassis. In fact, adding a lot more power can make it LESS fun in some situations, because then you mat the pedal for a few seconds, look in your rear view mirror, and see blue and red flashing lights, and that's not fun at all. The Miata is a weird case where, to a point, less horsepower can = MORE fun, but still, a car being fun should be defined by more than just how much power it has.
And if you actually watch the video uploaded by the "random Italian group," it becomes clear that... the video was made by the IIHS, the group that you trust.
The IIHS numbers that you're referring to are for hitting a stationary object. So, when you run into a parked car at 45 MPH (IIRC, that's the speed,) the ForTwo does pretty well. Just like most modern cars.
When you run into a car that's bigger than a ForTwo at 45 MPH, and it's also coming at you at 45 MPH, it's not pretty for you. Basic physics in action.
Of course, it's my opinion that safety is overrated, #1 because quite a lot of people are driving old "deathtraps" and somehow aren't dying, #2 because the world's overpopulated, #3 because safety encourages bad driving, #4 because excessive safety means excessive weight, which means everyone else needs to make their cars bigger to survive in a crash against everyone else, which means that everyone's using a LOT more fuel, which will trigger World War III. And, you get cars that are heavier and can't avoid the accident in the first place nearly as well.
And now we have the very quiet diesel engines, too.
(Our fuel is still crap, though. Poor lubricity (which is blowing up the high pressure pumps on said very quiet diesel engines,) low cetane (so it takes longer to burn.))
Nope. That was only for 2004-2006, and those were sold here. You might be thinking of the 2007 and 2008 Jetta TDIs, which weren't sold in the US because the US matched the 2004-2006 California standards, and VW had to do a ton more engineering to get the engine to be suitable again.
Car-2 is sold in California, it's the 2011 Golf TDI in this case, I believe.
Except TDIs hold their resale better, too. Annoyingly, couldn't find actual transaction prices on any 2.0L Golfs, so... we'll compare 2006 (5 year old) Golfs via the various blue book sites.
In 2006, the TDI was only available in GLS trim, so we'll start there.
NADA puts a 2006 Golf GLS 2.0 at $5225-7025 trade-in with 200,000 miles. (Not uncommon for a TDI, and gotta put the mileage the same for the comparison to be fair.) Kelley Blue Book puts trade-in at $2175-3675, or $3780-5405 private party. For a silver (ridiculously common) car, Edmunds puts the value at $3370-6497 trade-in, or $4292-7837 private party.
NADA puts a 2006 Golf GLS TDI at $7650-9600 trade-in for a $2425-2575 premium for the TDI. KBB puts trade-in at $3575-5675, private party at $5355-7555. Oh, and historically, KBB has been low on TDIs, and they still put a $1400-2150 premium on the TDI. Again silver, Edmunds puts the value at $5117-9283 trade-in, $6199-10,840 private party, for a $1747-3003 premium.
So, worst case, you're getting $1400 more if you sell the car 5 years later, and you're getting as much as $3003 more. Gotta consider that in your cost analysis, because that makes the payoff period much shorter.
Oh, and the 2006 Golf GLS had an MSRP of $18,390, versus the TDI's $19,850 MSRP. $1460 premium, so over 5 years, that turns into a $60 premium in the worst case. (Of course, in 2006, you most likely paid quite a bit less than MSRP for the outgoing 2006 Golf gasser, whereas you likely paid MSRP or more to get one of the last TDIs before 2007 emissions kicked in, and the TDI wouldn't be available until 2009 (expected for 2008,) but I digress.)
Of course, on the VW TDIs, you often end up bending rods with a runaway even if you can get it stopped. (A few things happen - the huge uncontrolled mass of oil acting as fuel causes very high cylinder pressures, the oil itself is incompressible so that causes hydrolock, and because there's nothing limiting the fuel, the RPM usually goes well above what's safe.)
At legal speed limits for semis in most parts of the country, a safe distance is still well within drafting range.
At 55 MPH, you're only 242 feet away with a 3 second gap, which is widely considered safe in dry conditions.
65, it goes out to 286 feet.
70, it goes out to 308 feet. 300 feet is still close enough to get some drafting effect, at least in a car the size of a VW TDI.
If you drop things to a 2 second gap (which many people do in regular driving, and you're gonna get stopped faster than the semi if something happens anyway,) it gets better. 205 feet at 70, 190 feet at 65, 161 feet at 55.
I have a 1999.5 Golf TDI that, with only minor mods, could get to well above the speed limit on even short uphill ramps if I pushed it, wide open throttle shifting at 4000.
Of course, now it's chipped. So it gets even further above the speed limit when driving it hard, and hits the speed limit while driving it moderately no problem.
Original 0-60 rating? 11-12 seconds.
For that matter, as long as there wasn't some bluehair in a Buick going 35, I could take most ramps and get to the speed limit in my 17.0 second (advertised at 17.5) 1986 Golf 1.6 diesel. (Some ramps, I couldn't, and if there was a bluehair, I was screwed on even the longest ramps.) Still, because of the bluehairs and idiots talking on their phones, it was dangerously slow.
The trick is, though, almost nobody goes 0-60 wide open throttle.
Here in Ohio, I haven't had a problem finding it. Some stations sell it, some don't, but I'm never too far from a station that does sell it. And, almost every BP station that's been renovated around here has been installing a diesel nozzle at every pump. (Myself, I fuel at an unattended station that has a biodiesel pump.)
The weird thing is, the original DSG transmissions were very, very quick. I've driven a 2006 Jetta TDI and saw none of that, and then a 2009 Jetta TDI and got exactly what you describe. For some reason, in the past few years, they started making the tuning suck. That said, there may be newer code that resolves that problem, IIRC the VW dealers in the US have such code for the 2009+ TDIs.
The Routan isn't the "US variant of the Touran" (and the Touran is far smaller, the Sharan is a far better comparison,) it's a Dodge Caravan with a VW badge.
Except it wasn't the ISP that did it. They're allowing full access to Hulu.
It was Fox, who runs Hulu, because another division of the ISP rejected a rate increase from Fox.
In this case, you're arguing for being unable to drop China at the firewall protecting your web server, for instance - that would violate your definition of net neutrality.
Alternately, the only other way that would work is that literally everyone that wants to get paid for access gets paid what they want to get paid, and if you don't pay someone, you get shut down. That's a disgusting thought.
Real net neutrality means that you can access any site without your ISP blocking or slowing down access, and there's no signs that that's been breached here, as Cablevision isn't blocking Hulu for Cablevision customers, HULU is blocking Hulu for Cablevision customers.
And Windows DOES have a privilege escalation check. It's called UAC. Lots of people disable it because of poorly-written software that needs admin rights all the time, but it is there.
The problem is the dancing bunnies problem. And there's only one way around that - an iOS-style walled garden, where Microsoft approves every Windows app that can run manually.
Cleanroom the TI-83+ firmware. Basically, make a TI-83+-compatible calculator. TI-83+ is the minimum standard for the curriculum, and the TI-84+ respects that, so...
Now, add your own differentiating features on top of that, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with TI-83+ button press sequences.
If the GP is using OpenCL, they're not using it for gaming, they're using it for scientific computing (or some similar FP-heavy, parallelizable workload.)
Cell is now fairly old technology, so a GPU catching up with and surpassing Cell doesn't surprise me one bit.
Slashdot Mirror
They think that the costs of certifying the good ones (hint: EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE,) as well as the costs of training dealers to service them, versus... American preferences... would not make it worth it.
If certification were cheaper, then things may be different.
And Mazda's been developing starter-less stop-start technology, that looks at where the engine is in its rotation, to determine the correct cylinder to fire some fuel and a spark in, to start the engine without using a starter.
There are numerous reports of pickup trucks going from 12-14 MPG to 18-20 MPG just by removing the emissions controls. (Part of that is because of the badly engineered emission control systems, but it's far from all of it.)
The trick is, what emissions do you want to control? Particulate matter and NOx are the ones that the US wants to control, and reducing NOx basically requires making the engine less efficient. (And then it requires burning more fuel in a catalyst instead of in the engine to burn off the particulate matter and trapped NOx.)
If you want to control CO2, like Europe does, then you need to lower fuel consumption. If you just care about lowering particulate matter, lowering fuel consumption will probably work. But NOx is a weird beast. The hotter things get (read: the more efficient things get,) the more NOx you generate.
Your 2001 Golf TDI also has a far more thermodynamically efficient engine than that 1985 Golf.
A 2001 Polo weighs about as much as said 1985 Golf, and a 2001 Polo 1.9 TDI (same drivetrain as a 2004-2006 US-spec Golf) was rated at 3.9 L/100km (60 MPG) on the highway, and 5.5 L/100km (43 MPG) in the city.
More horsepower = more fun isn't a problem.
It's when less horsepower = !fun (as opposed to less horsepower = less fun) that there's a problem.
I'll use my 1992 Miata as an example for that. 116 horsepower new, something like 90 left with the worn out engine with a partially dead cylinder.
Still fun as hell (until the timing belt tensioner broke, but that's another story.) It'd still be fun with a 50 hp engine, because what makes it fun isn't the engine, it's the chassis. In fact, adding a lot more power can make it LESS fun in some situations, because then you mat the pedal for a few seconds, look in your rear view mirror, and see blue and red flashing lights, and that's not fun at all. The Miata is a weird case where, to a point, less horsepower can = MORE fun, but still, a car being fun should be defined by more than just how much power it has.
And if you actually watch the video uploaded by the "random Italian group," it becomes clear that... the video was made by the IIHS, the group that you trust.
In fact, here's the article that the IIHS wrote about that: http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr041409.html
The IIHS numbers that you're referring to are for hitting a stationary object. So, when you run into a parked car at 45 MPH (IIRC, that's the speed,) the ForTwo does pretty well. Just like most modern cars.
When you run into a car that's bigger than a ForTwo at 45 MPH, and it's also coming at you at 45 MPH, it's not pretty for you. Basic physics in action.
Of course, it's my opinion that safety is overrated, #1 because quite a lot of people are driving old "deathtraps" and somehow aren't dying, #2 because the world's overpopulated, #3 because safety encourages bad driving, #4 because excessive safety means excessive weight, which means everyone else needs to make their cars bigger to survive in a crash against everyone else, which means that everyone's using a LOT more fuel, which will trigger World War III. And, you get cars that are heavier and can't avoid the accident in the first place nearly as well.
And now we have the very quiet diesel engines, too.
(Our fuel is still crap, though. Poor lubricity (which is blowing up the high pressure pumps on said very quiet diesel engines,) low cetane (so it takes longer to burn.))
Nope. That was only for 2004-2006, and those were sold here. You might be thinking of the 2007 and 2008 Jetta TDIs, which weren't sold in the US because the US matched the 2004-2006 California standards, and VW had to do a ton more engineering to get the engine to be suitable again.
Car-2 is sold in California, it's the 2011 Golf TDI in this case, I believe.
Except TDIs hold their resale better, too. Annoyingly, couldn't find actual transaction prices on any 2.0L Golfs, so... we'll compare 2006 (5 year old) Golfs via the various blue book sites.
In 2006, the TDI was only available in GLS trim, so we'll start there.
NADA puts a 2006 Golf GLS 2.0 at $5225-7025 trade-in with 200,000 miles. (Not uncommon for a TDI, and gotta put the mileage the same for the comparison to be fair.) Kelley Blue Book puts trade-in at $2175-3675, or $3780-5405 private party. For a silver (ridiculously common) car, Edmunds puts the value at $3370-6497 trade-in, or $4292-7837 private party.
NADA puts a 2006 Golf GLS TDI at $7650-9600 trade-in for a $2425-2575 premium for the TDI. KBB puts trade-in at $3575-5675, private party at $5355-7555. Oh, and historically, KBB has been low on TDIs, and they still put a $1400-2150 premium on the TDI. Again silver, Edmunds puts the value at $5117-9283 trade-in, $6199-10,840 private party, for a $1747-3003 premium.
So, worst case, you're getting $1400 more if you sell the car 5 years later, and you're getting as much as $3003 more. Gotta consider that in your cost analysis, because that makes the payoff period much shorter.
Oh, and the 2006 Golf GLS had an MSRP of $18,390, versus the TDI's $19,850 MSRP. $1460 premium, so over 5 years, that turns into a $60 premium in the worst case. (Of course, in 2006, you most likely paid quite a bit less than MSRP for the outgoing 2006 Golf gasser, whereas you likely paid MSRP or more to get one of the last TDIs before 2007 emissions kicked in, and the TDI wouldn't be available until 2009 (expected for 2008,) but I digress.)
Of course, on the VW TDIs, you often end up bending rods with a runaway even if you can get it stopped. (A few things happen - the huge uncontrolled mass of oil acting as fuel causes very high cylinder pressures, the oil itself is incompressible so that causes hydrolock, and because there's nothing limiting the fuel, the RPM usually goes well above what's safe.)
At legal speed limits for semis in most parts of the country, a safe distance is still well within drafting range.
At 55 MPH, you're only 242 feet away with a 3 second gap, which is widely considered safe in dry conditions.
65, it goes out to 286 feet.
70, it goes out to 308 feet. 300 feet is still close enough to get some drafting effect, at least in a car the size of a VW TDI.
If you drop things to a 2 second gap (which many people do in regular driving, and you're gonna get stopped faster than the semi if something happens anyway,) it gets better. 205 feet at 70, 190 feet at 65, 161 feet at 55.
I have a 1999.5 Golf TDI that, with only minor mods, could get to well above the speed limit on even short uphill ramps if I pushed it, wide open throttle shifting at 4000.
Of course, now it's chipped. So it gets even further above the speed limit when driving it hard, and hits the speed limit while driving it moderately no problem.
Original 0-60 rating? 11-12 seconds.
For that matter, as long as there wasn't some bluehair in a Buick going 35, I could take most ramps and get to the speed limit in my 17.0 second (advertised at 17.5) 1986 Golf 1.6 diesel. (Some ramps, I couldn't, and if there was a bluehair, I was screwed on even the longest ramps.) Still, because of the bluehairs and idiots talking on their phones, it was dangerously slow.
The trick is, though, almost nobody goes 0-60 wide open throttle.
As of 2005, 42% of stations in the US sold diesel: http://www.dieselforum.org/news-center/pdfs/March2005.pdf
Here in Ohio, I haven't had a problem finding it. Some stations sell it, some don't, but I'm never too far from a station that does sell it. And, almost every BP station that's been renovated around here has been installing a diesel nozzle at every pump. (Myself, I fuel at an unattended station that has a biodiesel pump.)
The weird thing is, the original DSG transmissions were very, very quick. I've driven a 2006 Jetta TDI and saw none of that, and then a 2009 Jetta TDI and got exactly what you describe. For some reason, in the past few years, they started making the tuning suck. That said, there may be newer code that resolves that problem, IIRC the VW dealers in the US have such code for the 2009+ TDIs.
The Routan isn't the "US variant of the Touran" (and the Touran is far smaller, the Sharan is a far better comparison,) it's a Dodge Caravan with a VW badge.
Except it wasn't the ISP that did it. They're allowing full access to Hulu.
It was Fox, who runs Hulu, because another division of the ISP rejected a rate increase from Fox.
In this case, you're arguing for being unable to drop China at the firewall protecting your web server, for instance - that would violate your definition of net neutrality.
Alternately, the only other way that would work is that literally everyone that wants to get paid for access gets paid what they want to get paid, and if you don't pay someone, you get shut down. That's a disgusting thought.
Real net neutrality means that you can access any site without your ISP blocking or slowing down access, and there's no signs that that's been breached here, as Cablevision isn't blocking Hulu for Cablevision customers, HULU is blocking Hulu for Cablevision customers.
And Windows DOES have a privilege escalation check. It's called UAC. Lots of people disable it because of poorly-written software that needs admin rights all the time, but it is there.
The problem is the dancing bunnies problem. And there's only one way around that - an iOS-style walled garden, where Microsoft approves every Windows app that can run manually.
Here's what I'd suggest for Casio.
Cleanroom the TI-83+ firmware. Basically, make a TI-83+-compatible calculator. TI-83+ is the minimum standard for the curriculum, and the TI-84+ respects that, so...
Now, add your own differentiating features on top of that, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with TI-83+ button press sequences.
Actually, nowadays, Windows (7) is the only OS that gets it right. Although pre-WPF apps look bad, and things get confusing, but such is life.
She never knew because I wear my ring on a chain around my neck so it doesn't get scuffed up.
Or is it because putting it on your finger makes you visible to Sauron, but invisible to everyone else?
why do you morons keep voting them back in ?
Because the other option is just as bad, but in slightly different ways.
And voting for a third party is throwing your vote away, because the morons don't know about the third parties.
"As a matter of fact, not giving up your seat to a white person is pretty disrespectful and smacks of complete ignorance and indifference."
That's actually what many, many people thought back then.
The ThinkPad 750P is where you've seen this before.
http://image.tianjimedia.com/imagelist/06/41/3zndi4y74ad6.jpg
Not QUITE the same mechanism, but damn close.
That's because their merchant agreements usually don't let them offer cash discounts.
I think you entirely miss the point.
If the GP is using OpenCL, they're not using it for gaming, they're using it for scientific computing (or some similar FP-heavy, parallelizable workload.)
Cell is now fairly old technology, so a GPU catching up with and surpassing Cell doesn't surprise me one bit.