Quote from Leifde :

Yeah, my onboard sound doesn't seem to be able to record what it sends out.

got the answer already
the answer:

Spoiler - click to reveal

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shopping list: ** ]something is missing from the recipe **

now I'm stuck with word particles

Quote from mrodgers :

FWIW, for nearly 80% of the cars manufactured for the US with this foam behind the plastic facia is made at my work. I can tell you that foam is produced to minimize the dollar cost of damage done to a vehicle in a 3 mph impact into a solid object. It definitely won't help you if you are personally hit by a car.

The foam front and rear energy absorbers in autos can be extremely hard. If I took a really good swing at your head with one, there would definitely be some heavy damage to you.

www.jsp.com, where I work, making molded EPP foam energy absorbers for cars (and much more).

You may be right about the foams (don't know too much about it, didn't care enough ), but you can't deny the general form and chosen materials have a huge impact on the severity of injuries. I know about it, because I work at a car safety testing company ( www.acts.de )

I have immense soundcard issues with lvl7, can someone PM me the solution - or write it in white letters?
thanks in advance

Quote from TiJay :

Exactly. I'm not saying people who don't look when they cross should be punished etc etc but to be honest- if a metal object hits you at 40mph, it ain't going to make a difference whether it has a curved hood or not. Either way, you're hosed.

sorry to spoil your fun, but it really makes a huge difference - maybe not at 40mph, that's a bit too fast, but at normal city speeds. Today's pedestrian protection technology is really greatly advanced, so if a car was designed the right way (most european cars are) hits a person, it's way more likely that the person is just lightly injured.
I'm assuming we're talking about "normal" cars here, so no sports coupes, they usually are really bad in those tests.
I should probably mention that the bumpers are made of plastic and sometimes even have foam behind them, so you won't get hurt too much.

One drawback is still present for the head protection: the manufacturer has to focus on a child's or (XOR) an adult head, because the bonnet (currently) can't be designed to protect both well.

Quote from BenjiMC :

XD thats quite humerous. i know what cars to look out for when i get S2

did you try it?
welcome to S2 btw

simple answer: AI isn't finished yet, wait (hopefully) for the next incompatible patch or S2 final

Quote from duke_toaster :

The problem with new cars is all of the bloody silly pedestrian safety things.

Yeah, what's up with pedestrian safety? If I run over a peron, I want him dead, not slightly injured :twisted:
And if he runs on the street without looking, he should be punished for his neglegence

(don't take the above statement too serious)

oh and btw: Does GP4Flo not sell licenses anymore?
If that's the case, I just could buy the voucher if he transfers the money on my bank account. PM me if you're interested.

It works - believe be - I have gone through it.
two S1 (or S1->S2 upgrade) licenses work as one single license.

edit: not exactly the problem, but somewhat related:
Hi,

Hmm yeah that's a bug in the payment system.
I've sent you another voucher code manually now, assigned to your account
(meaning it used the 12 pounds you had left). Your friend can use this
voucher code in addition to the one he already used, after which his account
will be ugpraded to S2.

Regards,

Victor van Vlaardingen

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So when you use voucher codes, it automatically upgrades the one you have, there's no difference between S1 or upgrade codes, S2 ones just work like 2 of them

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Quote from Jakg :

i like it, hope you release it son!

So you're the mother?

Quote from R3DMAN :

well to say i can only just hear ppl talkin through the window of my car when the engine is turned off i hardly doubt you would hear spectators 50 metres away with the engine on and having it near redline..

You should know, people are far more noisy while cheering than when talking. Don't know how intense it is though, nobody cheered for my driving yet

Last edited by herki, Sun 7 Jan 2007, 17:25. Reason : edit for more evilness :-)

Quote from Bob Smith :

IIRC he cheats, he skipped November (beer month).
Or at least didn't use a different version of that avatar.

he didn't cheat, the driver was drunk

Quote from mr_x :

Oh well, looks like that idea didn't go down too well, and that I'm the only one who seems to like modern day styling. Although I agree with Bob, mercs are boring.

Best thing would have been suggesting to fit A/C, Airbags, powersteering, ABS, ESP, electrical seats and even doors to the LX's. Now that would make them fun
Just out of curiosity, mr_x, have you driven an old and a new car car to compare? I have much more fun driving an old imperfect car than a new, boring car ... which is just a box on wheels with no character at all

Quote from JTbo :

Realworld damage, driver lived from this crash and rumours say it was not much over 70kph, trees are tough:

that could well be less than 70km/h. Even really modern car get deformed really badly at car-to-pole crashes, especially in the side. The official tests are done with ~30km/h for side impacts, where the pole (10") move into the body roughly 1/4th to 1/3rd of the car width.
For the front crash they use a 300mm pole and a speed of ~50km/h, and there the intrusion is 0.5m-1.0m (the whole hood usually) - and remember: there's an engine absorbing much of the energy. So LFS' damage is much to forgiving atm

PS: this guy is lucky to be alive

If Eric dares to "modernise" the good ol' cars, I'll come to him and "modernise" him. In my opinion today's cars get worse and worse looking, especially with all these safety measures they need to have. I like the shapes of old cars like the Audi quattro sport back then, nice and boxy.

so minus a bazillion from me

I theoretically could, because I have a) a broadband connection, b) the PStwo with ethernet onboard and c) a switch and a cable near enough. but the last time i tried, nobody was there (in GT4 it is), i didn't even try after that. Do you play online?

let's see how you do the cats next month

to bad I didn't find a better version of the pic

Quote from Bob Smith :

What's funny again?

he was/is drunk

(I love the quote from Beavis and Butthead: "You're not drunk. You're just stupid" )

see attachment

Quote from poumpoumpi :

hello, I search a setup for my car XRG GT Turbo because the car is uncontrolable...

I'm very sorry for my english write...

thank you

It's very controllable, depending on your driving style and controller. You might want to look in the beginners' forum for suggestions for a better driving style

Quote from Darecki :

Ah, to the Q version.

why don't you use V? do you have something to hide? *hint hint*

Quote from AndroidXP :

Yes, but I can even do that now, yet I almost never use it - maybe at race start if I don't want to pit but let the field through. During a race in LFS it can even be dangerous sometimes, because different people have different intentions with the indicators. One group (me included) indicates to the left saying that they will move to the left to let the others pass. For the other group indicating to the left means the opposite: "pass me on the left!". The result when these groups mix is not nice.

Your group is the right one though - because it's the more logical. In normal road use you use your indicators to tell where you are going, not to tell other people what they have to do. And I have yet to see the real-life race series where the indicators are used to tell the cars behind where they are going

First of all thanks Gunn for clearing it up, because I watched the whole drift bible I was aware of the things you described, but didn't think there could be some misunderstanding
I just didn't want to post the links to all 8 parts on youtube, because it's not to hard to find out yourself, of course you have to watch all 8 parts

About the modified cars: The XR GT Turbo isn't too different from the specs of the Silvia he uses most of the video and the XR GT could be useful for maneuvers he did in the AE86. The fact he does use pretty lightly modified cars proves also that you don't need insane amounts of steering lock to do showy drifts (that should be around part 6~7).

Also note: he is only drifting on closed racetracks - remember kids, when you drift, only do so on race-tracks where nobody is around

Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

I mean it should work like it does on real cars

then they won't auto-activate
auto-cancelling is fine for me, though I don't really need it. I'll stay with +-0 for this one

You may want to check out Keiichi Tsuchiya's drift bible, you can find it on youtube. he pretty much describes everything about drifting in there..
here would be the first part of 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-PGsUUzmQ0