Recent content by hmp10

This tracks the test results from Tire Rack on the Primacies. In fact, of 20 all-season tires tested, the Primacies were among the quietest and had the best wet and dry braking numbers -- by a considerable margin. https://www.tirerack.com/tires/michelin-primacy-tour-a-s The downside is...

The Pirelli PZ5's on the 22/23" Gravity wheels actually have sidewalls slightly taller (0.8" front / 0.3" rear) than on the Air 21" wheels. But the Gravity is heavier, so I don't really know if that would be any hedge against pothole damage. And in Boston you would need both winter wheels as...

So nothing can be a technology company unless their core business is computing and software. Because computing and software is the only technology. In the "accepted sense". Got it.

So what makes companies such as Meta or Palantir technology companies when, by your lights, nothing outside the information or software space is? The fact that their technology centers around computer science? And what makes your extremely narrow definition of technology the "accepted sense"...

I'm a Luddite. Help me here. I just found a link to this thread in a "Torque News" article. Has Annie's AMA been posted or streamed somewhere that I missed?

Says it all:

I am, too. But his impressions from comparing an Air Dream P to an Air GT so closely tracked mine that I'm thinking his opinion on whether the Gravity sees as much difference will be a good proxy for mine in my own decision making.

It was upon first hearing of the possibility of this order limit that I decided to switch our second Gravity order from a GT to a DE. I wanted to lock in DEs for both of us in the household should we want them. In all honesty, though, I'm hoping get a break on timing here. I'm assuming we are...

Actually, it was @Kzooguy who first reported hearing about a 450-car limit for the Dream. I suspected it might have been right, as it tracked what Lucid did with the Air: a Dream orders limit of 520 cars that matched the longest range rating of 520 miles (for the Dream Range). The 450 Gravity...

In all seriousness, I think yesterday's "Autopian" review of the Gravity said it best when it comes to landing the SUV vs. minivan debate: "The truth is that as SUVs have grown in market prominence, they have become so diverse that the term doesn't really have any meaning anymore. Is a Hyundai...

Of course, those air dams sit ahead of the front wheels. In the Air, once the front edge of the bumper reaches a curb or parking chock, you're already courting trouble. There's a narrow grayed out band at the front of the car on the birds-eye-view display, probably from where the absence of a...

Yeah, the tire data on that spec sheet is a bit of a mess. It's interesting that the Hankook and the Michelin LM1's still have the XL load rating but that the Pirelli LM1 has the newer, higher HL load rating (and this is not an error on the spec sheet) which was first introduced by several...

Okay, we're about to drive @borski nuts, but . . . MPV is the abbreviation for "multi-purpose vehicle". Those multi purposes are quite obviously "sport" and "utility", i. e., SUV. See how easy that was? 🙃

I know computer and software types like to think theirs is the only technology that matters these days, but they've yet to figure out how to make a vehicle move without a motor or an air conditioner to cool without a compressor or an airplane take to the skies without an engine. Here is what...

There are a lot of technologies besides information technology. Lucid's motors, power electronics, headlights, etc. are chock full of cutting-edge technology.