The Car thread
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Supposedly the worst thing you can do for the environment is have kids, so, 12 kids?
Average lifespan of cars in the US is 12.1 years. Average annual emissions of a passenger vehicle is 4.6 metric tons of CO2. So, 55.66 metric tons of CO2 emitted over it's lifespan.
Average annual per person CO2 emission in the US is 16 metric tons. By that math, one car lifetime = 3.5 people years. So one 3.5 year old, or 3 one year olds. Or 12 cars smushing one 42 year old.
That's a morbid exercise.
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You have it backwards. That three and half year old has used 16 metric tons, with a life expectancy of about 80 years you will generate an additional 1224 metric tons. So really a gasoline car just needs to take out someone 76.5 years old or about 22 cars running over one 3.5 year old.
A lot less morbid than your argument.
Wow, actual science, nice!
The average adult puts out about 100Wh of heat energy, not sure that would change the equation much though.
So the answer isn't always "5" fart can"?
For maximum impact yes, but an old will suffice if you just want to break even with a new car.
Give the elderly new cars and that would work itself out.
It would also create jobs rebuilding storefronts.
I am pretty sure this exists. There is a vid on the interwebs of a F1 (?) technician “playing” an ICE like a horn, which I assumed would require this type of tech…
The vid might even be in this thead somewhere…
man this thread was getting awesome till someone started talking about exhaust manifolds again
I don't think playing a tune would necessarily require that. If it were at the resonant frequency for the flatulence of the engine then one note would seem louder than the rest, but to generate the frequencies just requires hemming to a particular rpm, afaik.
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This looks like a truck, sitting on top of another truck… then they blended the lines.
Customer just purchased a Jeep Wrangler Hybrid. I didn’t know such a thing existed. The more you know.
Plug-in hybrid, no less, assuming it’s the 4xe we’re talking about.
Yes apparently it is. I guess I have been under a rock and did not realize Jeep was doing so.
It is quite nice. His wife who will be driving it works within the range of electric only.
I don't think its their electric drivetrain, it'd all be sourced from suppliers...
Same with Toyota and majority of all other oem's..
Stopped watching him ages ago, got bored.
I think everyone did. He made enough to get like an 18 car garage and I haven't seen him again.
Honda TypeR did a three port exhaust too: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a10032609/why-the-2017-honda-civic-type-r-has-three-tailpipes/
From the article:
"it's a precisely engineered, fully functional addition that's crucial to the Type R's aural experience"
Me to that writer:
Kinda looks like a sperm/tadpole.
That's a bit cruel to sperm and tadpoles.
So glad we don't get many American cars here, it looks like the US has a Homer Simpson at pretty much every manufacturer.
unbearable to watch him
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