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Blackout
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Quote from xaotik :Good point but I'm sure they can come up with a rounded off design that looks good and can still score the 5 star bonus multiplier for killing a pedestrian.

Yes, got to remember it's always a question of taste. And that the pederestian safety is relatively new thing, and it might take some time to refine the designs. It might be the stuff we see now is just quick easy solutions they had to make, because usually cars are drawn years before they go to production.
Blackout
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Don't blame the designers, blame the marketing people who like to make them safe so they can score more points in safety tests. You can't score 5 starts if your car has dangerous edges for pederestians.

Yeah, well, cars also become fatter (and slower, even the technology is more advanced) because adding more bits has been noticed as the best and easiest way to get more stars. Although that should be changing soon as they've finally realized it's possible to make safe light cars, which is better for performance and fuel economy. Mazda for example, lightened one of their models under 1000kg recently. Which is quite something nowdays, when even the most tiny cars weigh much over that.
Blackout
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I wonder if they can calculate their own fuel load or will they just spam "fuel?? plz!" every new combo.
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I really hope the splatter on the windscreen is a dirt experiment we can have soon on the cars.
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Quote from LFSn00b :All i miss are the pedals

And how are you going to see them while driving? :rolleyes:
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Had a second, closer look at the interior and now I really want to know what the other updated interiors will look like. That level of detail is rather nice!
Blackout
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Sweet!

The exhaust in that car is so nice, noticed it in the videos, but looks even better now! The interior and the dirty windscreen are very nice too!
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Quote from JTbo :Oi, I spend most of my days at work talking at front of group, usually those are older and more experienced ones too and I need to get them excited and to learn new things, while keeping group in tight control

I also do material to these people where I need to talk to video, damn it is annoying to listen

Yes, but teaching the elderly in relatively small group to use e-mail and talking face to face (well, your looking the back of the room anyway) is different than talking for a group of 23 million addicted nerds who will pick on your words and treat them like word of God, and all that from your own computer. And besides, coders don't usually become coders because they can present them self trough verbal communications do they? I would think not, but that might a nasty stereotype.

Anyway, carry on. Back on topic! Whatever that is at the moment, l33tability of LFS I guess?
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Quote from dawesdust_12 :e2, Look for some british specialty shops, that's where I've found mine the last few times. I plan on getting some soon too.

Shop dedicated to British cuisine?
Blackout
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I think he was just trying to sound clear and understandable as possible. Try making a voice over a video and try sound enthusiastic sitting in front of your computer talking on your own. I'm sure that you would sound the same, at least after you've twenty eight times failed to say what you wanted.
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Quote from deggis :Doesn't that already happen? Or did it just engage clutch.

I think it used to engage clutch if you kept both buttons down, and when released go back to the gear you where on. But it was removed in one of the versions we had recently as some sort of bug or imperfection. Of course, it hadn't worked because the gear would probably be bad after a spin, but if it did put you to N it would be good enough solution I think.
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Quote from mrodgers :What version? Blackwood you're talking, right? I came to LFS with S1 0.3h, just before S2 demo release and BL pits were in the same area. Pit road was slightly different exiting halfway down the front stretch.

No, I mean in South city, which the video was mostly about. But you probably didn't see it in S1 or did you?
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Quote from Bob Smith :So is the engine a flat 4, or a horizontally mounted inline 4?

Inline, or that is what wiki says.

edit. More about the K series engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_motorcycles#K_series
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Quote from Thorvertonian :The FIA are still considering the use of Slicks in 2008

Errrr....got a news source for that? Even from the baboons who run the house, that would be something extremely stupid to consider this point. Not that I wouldn't like to see it though.
Blackout
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Quote from ZORER :The laptop in the pits. is it new or is it me who didn't notice it before?

It's a new thing. They've made the boxes larger to fit two cars like on all other tracks.

Btw, saw a video from S1 yesterday and I had totally forgotten that the pits where on the other side of the road back then!
Blackout
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I was about to respond to the "only rich g25 bastards can now recover from a spin" -matter, and say that a workaround for that would be making a system that will engage neutral when both up and downshift buttons are pressed. But this thread moves so fast, and has changed in topic I guess.

And I don't have to agree secretly with Tristan. Good post. I don't understand why anything but wheels should be favored, and why should we let minority rule?
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Blackout
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Quote from geeman1 :I don't know about the dynamic part. But seems like night racing could finally be here.

No, sorry. That line can be found in previous versions too, been there for quite a bit I think.
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Quote from Electrik Kar ::hypnotize

Double that, I got no idea what is going on.
Quote from Timz :

But let's say, a sporty diesel-engined car would also be very neat, since diesel seems to conquer the world of racing very fast...Le Mans, WTCC, and what about the Hybrid-Supra Toyota has made?

Sorry, not going to happen. You can find a nice quote from Scawen on that matter.
Blackout
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Monitors and speakers don't go in to computer?
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Great stuff, made me grin.
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Quote from mrodgers :
What would happen IRL if a car stalled on the track? Would it be started via push vehicle? or just hauled away out of the race?

Your race is over.
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Quote from Madman_CZ :I second that! Although because nearly all my family is abroad it will be just me and my mum, like it has been for the last 15 years. Always kinda feels lonely. I don't expect any presents this xmas so it will be just like any other ymas... *sigh*

mad

Aww, I feel for you.
Blackout
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Quote from JTbo :
See difference in contact area, typical road car clutch have big contact area which make it durable and easy to operate.
Race clutch has much less surface area, which means more pressure but also operation is more harsh as clutch bites better.
Also note that smaller surface area last less time and will warm up quicker.

Nice comparison pictures, and that actually makes sense in terms of physics I can remember. I think the left handed ape might have been a slight understatement, but it doesn't kill so whatever.
Blackout
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I know this will sound cheesy, but good food and time with the family is all I need for Xmas.

And S2Y!
Blackout
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So how will the increased engine inertia add up to this clutch/gear changing thing?

Changing gears and matching the revs is easier?
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