The Surprising Other Reason Cars Keep Getting Bigger
[T]here are many reasons cars keep getting bigger. The presence of
tougher safety standards is one. Americans simply defaulting to larger
cars when they can and seemingly hating little cars is another.
But as Automotive News’ Ryan Beene points out, making cars bigger also allows automakers to deal with lower fuel economy and emissions targets.
(Jalopnik.com)
Monday, August 15, 2016
You Wanted The NFL, Welcome To NFL Pricing
Rams Fans Greeted With Absurd Parking Lot Prices For First 2016 Preseason Game
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — This past Saturday, the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Dallas Cowboys 28-24 in a thrilling fourth quarter comeback, but the win wasn’t the only thing that was grabbing headlines.
Fans took to social media to post images of the absurd prices that parking lots were charging in order to watch the Rams’ first preseason game of the year.
There were images surfacing of parking lots charging crazy amounts – some even as high as $100 – as an estimated 90,000 people turned out for the game.
(CBSLocal.com)
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — This past Saturday, the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Dallas Cowboys 28-24 in a thrilling fourth quarter comeback, but the win wasn’t the only thing that was grabbing headlines.
Fans took to social media to post images of the absurd prices that parking lots were charging in order to watch the Rams’ first preseason game of the year.
There were images surfacing of parking lots charging crazy amounts – some even as high as $100 – as an estimated 90,000 people turned out for the game.
(CBSLocal.com)
Did You Know - Dyno Edition
How a dyno determines how much horsepower a car has from the tires spinning.
The simplest type uses a(very large) weighted wheel of a known weight, and the engine’s ability to accelerate that weight to determine power. That’s how a “mustang dyno works. Other dynos use a known load, either an amount of water pumped, or an amount of electricity generated to find out the amount of power created. The mechanisms behind both methods are much more complicated, but are generally accepted as better, and more useful results, since they can be applied “steady state”. Meaning an engineer can find out how much power is produced at any given rpm continuously.
(CavemanCircus.com)
The simplest type uses a(very large) weighted wheel of a known weight, and the engine’s ability to accelerate that weight to determine power. That’s how a “mustang dyno works. Other dynos use a known load, either an amount of water pumped, or an amount of electricity generated to find out the amount of power created. The mechanisms behind both methods are much more complicated, but are generally accepted as better, and more useful results, since they can be applied “steady state”. Meaning an engineer can find out how much power is produced at any given rpm continuously.
(CavemanCircus.com)
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