Quote from danthebangerboy :

Really, last time i checked, speedometers show the speed in mph or km/h that the vehicle is travelling at, not the speed at which the wheels are revolving, i understand that wheel speeds are the initial moving part, and that the speed in either mph or km/h is calculated through speedo drives and gearing etc to give you that reading from the wheels, but dials dont display the RPM of your actual wheels directly.

Edit: the 10km/h more is a safeguard AFAIK, a speedo can over read but is not allowed to under read by law, so most manufacturers will gear their speedo ratios so that they under read slightly.

Since most speedos are not GPS-based, how do you think the speedo gets its data?

Discriminating by gender is akin to discriminating by race, IMO. Experience is really all that should matter.

Yep, a bit of a negative feedback loop.

Last edited by Forbin, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 18:19.

Quote from Intrepid :

Well I can add you to that list. I didn't mention that insurance claims were made, just stated every male driver I know has had at least a small accident.

I must say I am quite happy about this decision as it's finally waking a few people up to how much control the eu or european courts have over our lives despite us not having a referendum on our so-called membership.

FWIW, both my older brother and younger sister did the same thing their first snowfall with a license: put the car into a curb and damaged a tire and rim. It was more a matter of inexperience than anything else, IMO.

Quote from Intrepid :

Every male driver I know has had at the very least a small accident bar myself. It makes perfect sense to me why lasses have lower insurance premiums. They, in general, don't see a roundabout and think "I'm having some of that".

I don't have a single claim on my record.

I did hit a curb at around 10-15 mph in my first snowfall, and I've fallen off my motorcycle on both the street and track, but none ever required an insurance claim. The one exception was a racing incident last year when I broke my collar bone. I had to make a health insurance claim for that one. Still no auto insurance claims.

If LFS, there's a certain level of idealism with regards to the physics that you have to understand. The ideal is, if the physics work right for one car but not for another that , then the physics are wrong. If there's something odd about the way a vehicle handles or performs, you tweak the vehicle's design, not the underlying physics of the vehicle. If you need to tweak a vehicle's design using unrealistic values to achieve the desired result, then the physics are wrong.

If I understand correctly, rFactor is much the opposite. Each car has its own subset of physics and design properties. If something is wrong with the way a car handles, just tweak its various properties until you get the desired result, regardless of how well the design matches up with reality.

LFS tries to make everything right, even if it may feel off sometimes. rFactor tries to make everything feel right, even when it's not truly right.

Dear Kevin, please don't throw Leucat out. Thanks

Or a bicycle.

Get a bike.

Quote from J@tko :

American flag for "English"

The English language shall henceforth be known as "American." Specific dialects of what was formerly known as English as spoken by British and Australian people shall henceforth be known as "British American" and "Australian American," respectively.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Jads?

I'm adding links to tweak and other cool stuff to main post. Also trying to install forum on websites.

Kinda like JACS. (should be all-caps)

Jads.

Quote from bbman :

So deliberately setting them to an angle with no point of reference must really help with depth perception, yes?

Only if you're an idiot who can't adjust your perception. Also, I generally go by the rule that, if a car is in my side mirror or my peripheral vision, I can't do a lane change.

Isn't that what side mirrors are for? They're definitely not for looking at what's directly behind you. You have the rear view mirror for that.

I'm sure China or North Korea would be glad to have you.

Quote from Senninha25 :

I agree with dadge on every point. It was wrong to have him arrested, but completely right to keep him away from a football match. Don't bring people like that to stadiums if they're going to offend somebody (in a football stadium, of all places!!!)
I'm compelled to think that if the guy who made the gesture hadn't been arrested, he would've probably been torn apart by the people that got offended...

In that case, it would be the job of the police to arrest and try the people that tore him apart. Physical violence is not a valid nor legal response to verbal abuse.

Geez, what's with the thought police around here... Some serious fascist ideas in this thread.

Quote from mrodgers :

Aren't wing mirrors and side mirrors the same?

Yes. I meant a slight overlap between wing mirrors and the rear view mirror, much as you described.

Quote from bbman :

Well, that's why you guys need to be reminded that something might actually be closer than it seems...

Nice thing about that effect is it's caused by your mirrors being convex, which provides a wider field of view.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Don't arrest him, just bring him on at half time, show the video clip, then give out his full name and address on the tannoy. I believe in freedom of speech, but you have to take the consequences. It's like that radical muslim group that burnt poppies, they had the right to do it, but they shouldn't have been protected.

That's cruel and unusual punishment, with no trial to boot.

I have my mirrors set up such that there's a slight overlap between the wing mirrors and side mirrors. This also has the effect of pointing the mirrors out far enough that there is also a slight overlap between the field of view on the side mirror and my peripheral vision. Thus, I have essentially no blind spots.

If you can see your own vehicle in your side mirrors in a normal driving position, you have them pointed in too far and you're creating a blind spot.

At home on my computer: I often have music on while playing a multiplayer game, with multiple full albums queued up on VLC and playing through my Grado RS1i headphones.

At work: Cowon D2+ with basically all the same albums as my home computer and a cheap-ish set of Sennheiser ear buds (not IEM's).

Driving: If I'm in my own vehicle, I may bring some CD's with me and put them in. If I'm in a rental with satelite radio, I'll put it on the indie station and keep it there. I very rarely listen to plain old radio.

I'd say football riots are more a result of retarded fans in general than the actions of one imbecile.

Definitely in poor taste but totally within his rights of freedom of expression, IMO.

"Suspicion of harassment" sounds like a total BS charge, too. Either charge him with harassment and try him or leave him alone.

Last edited by Forbin, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 17:55.

Quote from Whiskey :

If an engine develops 300 bhp, the clutch is not really holding all of those because the car will be accelerating. But if you apply your brakes the clutch will hold all those horses.

It's hard to explain in English, sorry

Bollocks.

Force is force, whether it's going through the drivetrain and acting on the ground or on the chassis through the brakes.

Along those same lines, clutches are not rated based upon horsepower capacity. They are rated based upon torque capacity.

Last edited by Forbin, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 14:44.

Just start your throttle application sooner.

Turbos suck anyway. Natural aspiration ftw. Want more power with equal displacement? Tune for revs, the way high performance motorbikes have been doing it for at least 3 decades.

Also: :bananadea

Last edited by Forbin, Sat 12 Feb 2011, 02:15.