My brother was killed by a careless driver.
When I read your post I want to reach through the internet and strangle you.
Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the Fast-Accelerating Model S Even Faster
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tires also cost tens of thousands of dollars. The wheels need to be replaced fairly frequently as well, and they also cost tens of thousands of dollars. Supposedly there are Veyron owners who ship their car to a destination and then follow along in their private jet because that's cheaper than driving the car there. The P100D isn't cheap, but the Veyron is a whole different category of expensive.
There's a lot of cars that are like that. Cost in Fuel, Miles and general depreciation. Just ship it. Its not that crazy. Also if anyone wants to see someone do a full on heavy run of the Veyron check out Ben on Goldrush 2015? He ran his I think to 255mph if memory serves me right...
What's crazy about the Veyron isn't that it's cheaper to ship it than to drive it. It's that it's cheaper to ship it and fly there on your private jet than to drive it. Your car needs to be pretty expensive to operate for that to be a net win.
Maybe there are still "a lot" of cars like that in the realm of million-dollar supercars. But I think it qualifies as crazy when the context is a family sedan that's fairly cheap to operate.
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#83Not sure I agree with the terminology of the article (fast rather than quickest accelerating), but I thought this quote was special: > Speeds like this offer more Gs than Earth, so the rate of acceleration is faster than falling. It can feel difficult to support your head and shoulders if you don’t lean back on the headrest.
At 2.6-sh second mark your car accelerates with more than 9.8m/s^2 to get to 60. But even lower accelerations will glue you to the seat because gravity acceleration affects every part of your body. Where as the car grabs you by the butt and yanks you forward. So - I think he has probably some vague idea of Newtonian physics but just didn't manage to produce coherent sentence.
> But even lower accelerations will glue you to the seat because gravity acceleration affects every part of your body. Where as the car grabs you by the butt and yanks you forward.
The feeling of weight we associate with gravity is not distinguishable from elevator-style or car-style acceleration (not counting vibrations; or tiny gradients in the field). You don't feel gravity gluing you to the ground, you feel the ground continuously shoving you skyward to stop the free fall.
See: equivalence principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
At 2.6-sh second mark your car accelerates with more than 9.8m/s^2 to get to 60. But even lower accelerations will glue you to the seat because gravity acceleration affects every part of your body. Where as the car grabs you by the butt and yanks you forward. So - I think he has probably some vague idea of Newtonian physics but just didn't manage to produce coherent sentence.
How is more than one g accelleration possible? There is one g making the friction between the tyre and the road.
Imagine the tires were velcro'd to the ground. Or that they had giant spikes stabbing down for traction. Clearly you could go over 1g with that, right?
The same kind of thing (not literally, but analogously) is already happening at the atomic level, giving the tires a coefficient of friction of more than 1.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most jurisdictions call unsafely accelerating reckless driving or street racing. I own a car that will legitimately do 200 MPH but existing laws cover it too.
Top speed is a different beast altogether than acceleration, and I doubt you drive 200mph on public streets.
certainly not 200mph, but he i'm betting he breaks the speed limit. should we ban cars that go above 65mph?
on second thought, never mind, i probably know your answer.
"ban everything dangerous until there's no possible way anyone can get hurt" is not what freedom is.
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#86Is Tesla so fast compared to the price because is an electric car or this is totally unrelated and was just designed to have such an acceleration, without help from the fact it's an electric car? Thanks. EDIT: Thank you for the replies!
The reason why an EV would outperform most motors is mutli-fold 1. No cold starting. The engine is on as soon as you push power in. 2. Equal torque at all speeds 3. The lack of a need for a transmission. All "gears" can be controlled by how much power you're feeding The EV is more like a solid state transistor verses a relay. They do similar things, they're good for different applications, but the transistor has some…
The "cold starting" issue isn't as significant as it might seem. Most acceleration tests on ICE vehicles are started with the brakes down and the throttle up. It is very hard on the vehicle and doesn't match what you would likely do in the real world, but it does mean power is available right from the start.
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#87It wouldn't surprise me if they legislate maximum acceleration in the next ten years. Zero to sixty in 2.5 seconds is fun, no doubt about it, but it is fun on a racetrack. You can go on YouTube right now and find dozens of people utilising Tesla's existing "ludicrous mode" on public streets. And here's the thing, if people want to endanger their own lives that's fine. But they aren't just endangering their own lives,…
sigh. knee-jerk reaction to ban dangerous things. first of all, a minivan can kill you doing 10mph. second, cars with this much power (and more importantly, top speed), have been around for a long time. you can build an 8-second quarter mile car in your garage and drive it on the street. more nanny-state nonsense. "think of the children".
That "nanny state nonsense" witnessed road deaths fall from 25 per 100K in 1930 to 10 per 100K since 2010. We've halved road deaths per every 100K of population! I'll take my nanny state nonsense where people are still alive, over the libertarian wet dream where they're dead.
I really think it boils down to that some people value their own personal enjoyment over other people's safety. The sad truth is that you could absolutely enjoy vehicles like that but without endangering safety, by going to a race track. There's literally race days even for road-legal vehicles.
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#89I've imagined Elon, still connected to childhood sci-fi dystopian futures, would most certainly include some secret "God Mode" backdoor that only he knows... So, in a future where Tesla's are all over the roadways,and the earth falls under alien attack or some other crisis -- he could easily escape by speaking to any nearby Tesla, which would give him full access (maybe even unlocking faster speeds ;). Perhaps even h…
In the future where aliens land on Earth and start a ground assault[0], Elon can take all the Teslas left by fleeing civilians and use them as remotely controlled (soon to be autonomous) weapons to fight the invasion, all from the safety of his volcano lair. ;). -- [0] - Why ground assault instead of orbital bombardment? Well, there aren't many alien vessels left in orbit after a massive onslaught of Falcon 9s and BF…
If I remember correctly, there is a scene in the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez where autonomous cars are used similarly.
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#90It wouldn't surprise me if they legislate maximum acceleration in the next ten years. Zero to sixty in 2.5 seconds is fun, no doubt about it, but it is fun on a racetrack. You can go on YouTube right now and find dozens of people utilising Tesla's existing "ludicrous mode" on public streets. And here's the thing, if people want to endanger their own lives that's fine. But they aren't just endangering their own lives,…
Cars that can go this fast or close enough have been around for decades.
Indeed. But people who own supercars and other kit cars capable of such feats were rare and expensive.
Electric vehicles are going to take something, once rare, and make it common. Once it becomes common, the accident incidents will be more than just statistical noise, and legislative action may follow.
The NHTSA and FMCSA are currently working on a proposal for large commercial vehicles that would artificially limit their maximum speed to 68 mph. So it isn't unheard of for legislation to be created to target new vehicles which aims to improve public safety.