2018 MXA 350 SHOOTOUT: HUSQVARNA FC350 VERSUS KTM 350SXF | Fuel Injection/Nozzle

But when it comes to braking, both types of cars perform essentially the same… though at least until lately when it came to ‘black ice’ or otherwise ‘invisible’ ice, the ABS would think the car was at a dead stop… while you keep sliding into trouble. That ‘threshold and release’ technique still saved me one time as I was on an iced-over bridge headed for an intersection where the light had just turned red, nearly 500 feet in front of me. Now, I knew I was on a bridge and I was pretty sure I was on ice (we’d just had a snowstorm the night before) so I was almost literally crawling along the highway, maybe doing 20mph on the flat. Unfortunately, I was on a long, sweeping, downhill curve to the light at the bottom. I touched the brakes so lightly I couldn’t even feel any braking effort, but my steering said I was sliding. Release and the car would track the steering, touch the brakes and the car would slide. I did this I don’t know how many times as I made my way around that curve and finally came to a full stop… right in the middle of the intersection. Had I just locked down on the brakes, the ABS would have done nothing but let me slide off the road, helplessly.

B) On the twisty 2 lane by my brother’s house, I was not going much more than the speed limit, maybe 45 in a 35 in an absolutely minimally populated and minimally driven (at almots midnight) back road. I’d have seen any oncoming cars by their headlights, and I was never entering the oncoming lane, just putting a tire on either the center divider or the edge line to carve a cleaner corner. The system absolutely freaked out about this.

The global automotive adaptive cruise control system is categorized based on sensor type: infrared, laser or LIDAR, radar, ultrasonic and image sensors. LIDAR sensors based adaptive cruise control system is expected to remain the most dominant technology type in the global automotive industry over the next five years.

Tire shop I go to keeps examples of rotted TPM units on their counter to show customers what’s happening.

Other safety systems help the driver to disregard situational awareness while driving and instead rely on technology, that can and will fail, to pay attention for them.

The CRF450 rear shock is very touchy to set up. We set race sag from 106mm to 110mm on the CRF. Then, we slid the forks down into  the clamps to balance out the chassis. Please note: any change to the shock seriously affects the forks.

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The rear shock is on the stiff side and overpowers the stock soft front forks, especially under hard braking—which aggravates the front more than the rear. The fix is to leave the rear shock alone and stiffen the forks.

A: We have never heard this. In our opinion, E85 burns cleaner and is less likely to contaminate the oil than E10 or pure gasoline. Besides, your engine was built to accept E85 fuel. You didn’t provide the make or year of your car, but your vehicle probably has a maintenance reminder system. Change the oil when it tells you to do so. Consult your owner’s manual.

Seems there is some confusion interpreting Scarecrow’s post. He’s saying that when technology benefits extend to other people beyond the purchaser, the government may need to apply pressure, since the purchaser isn’t as willing to spend money for the benefit of other people. This is in contrast to seatbelts and airbags, which are for the benefit of the purchaser; in that case the government doesn’t need to prod the purchaser — it’s a personal expense for personal benefit that the individual can weight for himself or herself.

By acquiring Torqueedo, a manufacturer of electric drive marine motors, Deutz was able to cut five years out of the technology development needed to electrify their diesel engine powertrains.

" Had complete brake failure. Was able to get the truck stopped. Saw it was 2 pints low on fluid. Added fluid, drove towards my auto shop, had to stop to fill the brake fluid again (the light went on this time). Did this a few times. Just before I got to the stop, the truck blew out some smoke, chugged, and the motor seized up. Towed the truck to the shop, they found out the master cylinder leaked and the vacuum lines sucked the brake fluid out of the master cylinder and dumped it into the cylinders in the motor and this blew my motor. I hear there is a recall for this on 2014 F-150S but not on the 2011. Terrible design. A brake problem should not blow up my motor." – Aug 11, 2018