Final Destination 2 gets real: polish truck loses its cargo consisting of industrial paper rolls, one of them smashes into oncoming van, killing the driver (who also happened to be polish). (These paper rolls weigh as much as a top spec BMW 5 series with two passengers.)
https://jalopnik.com/the-love-bug-is-a-way-better-car-movie-than-you-probabl-1288682412 Don't even bother to ask how I stumbled on this, but I find it rather interesting in terms of what we're used to seeing in the modern age, that being deep fantasy universes with meticulous internal consistency and somewhat-plausible explanations for everything. The Love Bug and its many sequels were unapologetically kids' movies and didn't seem to age with their fanbase like some other things have; thus they have remained immune to nerd culture. And I think the author of that article was right; if those movies had been made more recently, they probably would have contained some explanation involving wizards or AI in an attempt to appeal to adult fans, and they also wouldn't have been as good for it. The looser approach taken left Herbie with a multiple-choice origin story and, most likely, anyone over the age of 10 with more questions than answers, but I can't help but think that if Disney had tried to have explanations for everything, it would have been less somehow (and probably would have had less pop-cultural impact as well) because all the wonder would be gone out of it. I've never watched the movie, I have thoroughly spoiled it for myself via the internet, I've still also added watching the original and the Monte Carlo sequel to my automotive bucket list, but as someone who's used to fantasy IPs like Lord of the Rings and Pokemon that have massive piles of lore and a fair amount of internal consistency, plus endless fan theories to try to fill in/explain away the rest, everything I've seen about the franchise leaves me with so many questions and I actually think the lack of official/plausible fan answers are part of the interest value. There's a Blockbuster franchise still soldiering on in my town; maybe I'll head there tomorrow night and see if they have it.
Any thoughts of the Venom F5? It probably wont reach 300, It's not by any means the greatest looking car ever, but still does look better then what bugatti's making.
BMW have to recall ALL I3 do to Crash Test results https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/bmw-recalls-all-i3-electric-cars-over-crash-test/ Also GMC might be rebooting the Desert Fox also also The Chrysler Pacifica might be getting a recall over it Turning off suddenly.
That article says: "because a crash test showed a higher risk of neck injury for a 5-foot-tall, 110-pound woman not wearing her seat belt." Its her fault for not wearing a seatbelt. :I Any car will be unsafe without them.
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBFucbD?m=en-gb Interesting view on cars, apparently roads are only 30% of pollution compared to other stuff. Also its odd to see at the start MSN disconnecting themselves from the writeup
Ok, so... 30% contribution is huge As for Attacking the other 70% as suggested in the article. That other 70% is being tackled. The article takes aim at planes (which is fair), however planes are getting greener continuously and there is a fair amount of R&D going into that. Home appliances are getting better thanks to clear labelling. Same goes for heating. The UK already has hybrid buses, full electric buses are on the way, local councils are already adopting EV's (such as Nissan's electric van) and the new London Taxi's are electric hybrids. Encouraging older diesels not to visit densely populated area's? Surely that is the point of taxing it? Do they want tax payer money to go towards paying people not to drive in cities? Euro 6 while lovely in theory, is only something that is achieved in the labs for many diesel vehicles: http://equaindex.com/equa-air-quality-index/ As for their final point. I would have to agree, the automotive industry does deserver praise for its current pace of innovation and R&D into alternative fuel sources. However they do also deserve negative attention for their practices as an industry, in the amount of effort they put into covering up the emissions of their vehicles as well as the amount of effort put into trying to cheat in emissions tests. While improvements to the UK's infrastructure to support new power sources needs to go further. It is rather unfair of the article to not give enough praise to the rollout of these systems. For example you can view a map of UK EV charging points below. Not all of these chargers are public, some may be for customer use only, however this is all listed on the map. https://www.zap-map.com/live/
Yeah there are constant improvements but without negative rep then companies will become lazy. Also shouldn't they measure the amount of CO2 per person per mile and compare it all together, i expect train travel to probably be the greenest but i don't know (maybe the high capacity of jets will decrease this number)
Don't see much point in the view of the entire Earth. Unless you can take the thing off and use the screen to help you enter orbit. Being serious though, I don't like the air things (Whatever they're called) and that yellow stripe --- Post updated --- Also, it appears to be missing a pedal...
It kinda looks like a mid 2000's Sedan's interior but with neon in it, and with a tablet on the dash.
