Weird, I was not expecting it to be basically a Formula SAE car.
New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
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#152On a related note in the sports car community its been interesting to watch Acceleration stop being a mark of a performance car. There is even a lot of chatter around this being the end of the supercar segment since there are family wagons that can now do 2 second 0-60 runs. On top of that the speed is now too much for anyone to reasonably use off a drag strip or circuit. Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, d…
This is really quite wrong. Performance car /= sports car. Sports cars are light and nimble by definition. They are usually fast, but this is not a rule. There have always been sedans that are faster in a straight line than most sports cars. There have always been sports cars that are not very fast at all. None of this is new, and claiming otherwise is ahistorical. Even back in the '60s, a sports car enthusiast would…
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is really quite wrong. Performance car /= sports car. Sports cars are light and nimble by definition. They are usually fast, but this is not a rule. There have always been sedans that are faster in a straight line than most sports cars. There have always been sports cars that are not very fast at all. None of this is new, and claiming otherwise is ahistorical. Even back in the '60s, a sports car enthusiast would…
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Re: New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
#154On a related note in the sports car community its been interesting to watch Acceleration stop being a mark of a performance car. There is even a lot of chatter around this being the end of the supercar segment since there are family wagons that can now do 2 second 0-60 runs. On top of that the speed is now too much for anyone to reasonably use off a drag strip or circuit. Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, d…
> Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, dynamics, and a bunch of vague "feelsomeness" as sports cars slowly become like horses. I think this is mostly just the experience of people who only started caring about performance cars when EVs started being competitive. Porsche people (and many others) have been ranting about the engagement and driving dynamics for 50 years now. There are decades of arguments on forum…
This has been an age old debate -- if you read the comment closely it was saying that supercars were defined by acceleration and handling, but now acceleration is no longer their forte. You could always get a sports car like a P-car if you wanted handling.
Don't think everything is just defined by this one issue, it goes way back, but Electric has now killed the first half of a supercar
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#155Re: New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, dynamics, and a bunch of vague "feelsomeness" as sports cars slowly become like horses. I think this is mostly just the experience of people who only started caring about performance cars when EVs started being competitive. Porsche people (and many others) have been ranting about the engagement and driving dynamics for 50 years now. There are decades of arguments on forum…
This has been an age old debate -- if you read the comment closely it was saying that supercars were defined by acceleration and handling, but now acceleration is no longer their forte. You could always get a sports car like a P-car if you wanted handling. Don't think everything is just defined by this one issue, it goes way back, but Electric has now killed the first half of a supercar
> if you read the comment closely it was saying that supercars were defined by acceleration and handling
> sports car community
> as sports cars slowly become like horses
can you see how I might have been confused that the comment was about sports cars?
> supercars were defined by acceleration and handling, but now acceleration is no longer their forte.
I would argue that their forte is (usually) being fast around a track, and that acceleration and handling are just aspects of a complete system, subject to engineering tradeoffs like anything else. When we evaluate through that lens, ICE/hybrid supercars are doing just fine.
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#157It shouldn't matter, but I'm personally delighted that the driver was female.
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#158Interesting video from Engineering Explained on the impact of grip on acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7yigpPSu_o
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#159It shouldn't matter, but I'm personally delighted that the driver was female.
Did you just assume their gender ?
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume it's because racing, as a sport, is a lot less interesting without the variable of a human with particular skills operating the vehicle. I doubt crowds would be as interested in watching cars race on autopilot, though it'd still be kind of cool, I guess.
> racing, as a sport, is a lot less interesting without the variable of a human with particular skills operating the vehicle. If full self-driving gets much better, I think it could be fun to see this happen. It would be like a hackathon with teams swapping out and improving on strategies through laps. The qualifiers could happen on electric miniatures then the final round would get a full car to race on a track.
That actually does sound pretty fun haha