photograph by Tony Vaccaro
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
"Georgia O’Keeffe and Cheese" (because I don't want any of you thinking you can predict what you'll find here, unless you're predicting the unusual, and car related. Bingo, that and a bit of humor)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
BMW brought its most impressive development prototype yet to the Shanghai Auto Show, the BMW Vision Driving Experience prototype, and then drove it straight up a giant quarter-pipe just to show that it could.
Thanks to active aerodynamics, the "driving machine" develops a downforce of 2,645 pounds, specifically, the fans that suck the Vision Driving Experience to the ground, and lateral forces of up to 3g - a dimension on a par with Formula 1 and far beyond the requirements of conventional vehicles in road traffic.
The logic behind this: If the hardware and software can tame the brute forces of this test rig, they can easily cope with the demands of everyday use.
In the new functional architecture of the Neue Klasse, the Heart of Joy is the central computer responsible for driving, braking, recharging through recuperation and some steering functions. With fast information processing and direct control of the electric motors, the Heart of Joy not only achieves a new level of agility and driving stability with fewer system interventions, but also enables 98 per cent of braking operations to be carried out using brake energy regeneration. This represents a 25% increase in efficiency compared to today's architectures. The vehicle can also be brought to a standstill more smoothly than ever before.
In the new functional architecture of the Neue Klasse, the Heart of Joy is the central computer responsible for driving, braking, recharging through recuperation and some steering functions. With fast information processing and direct control of the electric motors, the Heart of Joy not only achieves a new level of agility and driving stability with fewer system interventions, but also enables 98 per cent of braking operations to be carried out using brake energy regeneration. This represents a 25% increase in efficiency compared to today's architectures. The vehicle can also be brought to a standstill more smoothly than ever before.
Monday, April 21, 2025
license plates I saw today
Well, I guess this would be what someone at a state university might yell at a football game
strangely nearly destroyed by a lot of weather and sum damage, but the trim ring is for the Pittsburg Panthers, the University of Pittsburg football team
Love to be dependent?
It is not easy to get accurate info of the founders of the Cushman Scooter company.
Everett B Cushman and Clinton Cushman founded the company in 1901, they were cousins.
In 1919, Everett was out, and that is about all there is to easily find about the co-founder of the Cushman company, whose scooter won 4 Army/Navy "E"s in the Navy in WW2 https://usautoindustryworldwartwo.com/cushman.htm
He married Florence Judd, his parents were Joseph Warren Cushman and his mom was Ruth E Bruce
He was born in Champaign Illinois in 1878, he died in Huntington Beach Calif. in 1963
His direct ancestor was on the Mayflower, as were other Cushmans, and they came from England. They went from Plymouth to Vermont to Illinois, and his great grand dad was in the Massachusetts Militia in the revolutionary war
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/76123388/person/162601912049/facts http://www.osagcd.com/cushmanclinton.htmlSince the info before the Atlantic crossing isn't easy to get, I can only see that my ancestors, the Cushmans, and Everett's ancestors, were both from England
Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka launched the first electric three-wheeler, or e-tuk, for plastic waste management in the country at the Central Environmental Authority.
Likely this is just a marketing and publicity gimmic to gain back some ground after the recent greenwashing debacle when they quietly backtracked from the pledge that 25% of its bottles would be returnable or refillable by 2030
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Three circus elephants pull a semi-truck across a field in Cedar City, Missouri
a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all other Tesla owners in the state after he says the company has been systematically altering odometers so their warranties expire faster.
the lawsuit is brought by a plaintiff who states that from March 2023 to June 2023, for instance, Hinton said, his car logged 72.35 miles per day despite him having a consistent driving routine of just 20 miles per day.
His odometer, which regularly overestimated his mileage by at least 15% but sometimes as much as 117%.
After the vehicle’s 50,000-mile basic warranty expired in July 2023, Hinton said, the odometer then began to underreport his daily usage. In April 2024, the lawsuit alleges, the Model Y reported around 50 average daily miles, despite Hinton driving a 100-mile commute two to three days a week.
His odometer, which regularly overestimated his mileage by at least 15% but sometimes as much as 117%.
After the vehicle’s 50,000-mile basic warranty expired in July 2023, Hinton said, the odometer then began to underreport his daily usage. In April 2024, the lawsuit alleges, the Model Y reported around 50 average daily miles, despite Hinton driving a 100-mile commute two to three days a week.
According to the lawsuit, Tesla’s odometer system isn’t physically linked to the number of miles the vehicle has traveled, instead relying on data like energy consumption, driving behavior and predictive algorithms to estimate distance traveled.
“By tying warranty limits and lease mileage caps to inflated ‘odometer’ readings, Tesla increases repair revenue, reduces warranty obligations, and compels consumers to purchase extended warranties prematurely,” the suit said.
“By tying warranty limits and lease mileage caps to inflated ‘odometer’ readings, Tesla increases repair revenue, reduces warranty obligations, and compels consumers to purchase extended warranties prematurely,” the suit said.
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in 1967, a couple guys got a couple vending machine doors, and 55 years later the Coca Cola hot rod is selling for 1/3rd a million dollars if anyone with that much moolah needs this museum piece that much.
Glen Yeary and Steve Tansy made this custom creation, and Yeary is selling it.
Yeary and Tansy were provided the two real Coca-Cola vending machine doors, used a bottle crate for the kick board, a pair of bottles for the tail lights, and a lot of polish on the engine. Strange that they didn't use a cooler for the gas tank trunk. The fountain spigot for the radiator ornament is a nice touch though
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