#internal combustion engine

[schumis-weddingdress]

I miss the times when if someone said 'ICE' we all thought about Internal Combustion Engine and the only thing it was killing was Leclerc's hope for the championship.

[biblioklept]

Miserable comforters are ye all | On George Saunders' hollow new novel Vigil

George Saunders’ latest novel Vigil is told primarily from the perspective of a ghost, Jill “Doll” Blaine, a spirit who has resisted elevation to up there in order to remain on Earth, where she guides her dying “charges” into the afterlife. Her latest (and perhaps last) charge is one K.J. Boone, an oil tycoon dying in the “slop room” of his least favorite house. Boone spent his career denying…

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This is the Tonyism Minecraft server

The Tonyism Minecraft server is a Minecraft SMP composed of (currently) 5 members (Bunny, Cornbread, EZStarget, Tony, and I JetCheese). This blog serves as an archive of things that have happened on the server as well as our thoughts about things that have happened on the server. The writing style may change as this is a joint account shared by the members of the server. Don't expect regular or particularly good posts. Below are some choice screenshots from our server.

[idlejet]

DIY exhaust system repair on a ‘99 Camry with a coffee can and hose clamps should get me another year… These DIY 20th century skills will be moot when electric cars become the norm.

[rjzimmerman]

For first time in 5 years, US gas mileage down, emissions up

A new government report says gas mileage for new vehicles dropped and pollution increased in model year 2019 for the first time in five years.

Thank you, to the republican party and donald trump for creating an atmosphere in which it has been OK to purchase gas guzzlers, because that was the patriotic, America First way to go. Now maybe (I hope) some return to smart will lead American consumers in the other direction.

Excerpt from this story from USA Today:

A government report says gas mileage for new vehicles dropped and pollution increased in model year 2019 for the first time in five years.

Americans continue to buy SUVs and trucks and shift away from more efficient vehicles.

The Environmental Protection Agency said the changes show that few automakers could meet what it called unrealistic emissions and mileage standards set by President Barack Obama's administration through the 2020 model year.

Environmental groups said automakers used loopholes and stopped marketing fuel-efficient cars and electric vehicles knowing that the Trump administration was about to roll back mileage and pollution standards.

The EPA report released Wednesday says gas mileage fell 0.2 miles per gallon for model year 2019, while greenhouse gas emissions rose by 3 grams per mile traveled, compared with 2018 figures. Mileage fell and pollution increased for the first time since 2014.

[lindahall]

Samuel Morey – Scientist of the Day

Samuel Morey, an American inventor, was born Oct. 23, 1762.

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[brandondonnelly]

Is Tesla the new iPhone?

Benedict Evans just published a great post on his blog about “Tesla, software and disruption.” I recommend a full read. In it, he tries to answer whether Tesla is really “the new iPhone” and if it will be as disruptive to the car landscape as some/many people think.

In his line of thinking, electric (as opposed to an ICE vehicle) feels a lot more like a sustaining innovation, rather than a disruptive innovation. In other words, it something that incumbents will be able to incorporate. So it will not change the “basis of competition.”

The more critical aspect is instead autonomy. Here are two snippets from the piece:

All of this takes us to autonomy. Electric is compelling but will probably be a commodity, whereas Tesla’s improvements on top of electric may not be commodities but are not necessarily decisive. Autonomy changes the world in profound ways (I wrote about this here), and it’s a fundamentally new technology that doesn’t look at all like a commodity. And Tesla is doing this, too. Sort of.

In this competition, Tesla’s thesis is that the data it can collect from its cars will give it a crucial advantage. The only reason that anyone is interested in autonomy today is that the emergence of machine learning (ML) in the last 5 years probably gives us a way to make it work. Machine learning, in turn, is about extracting patterns from large amounts of data, and then matching things against those patterns. So how much data do you have?

But even if we are to all agree that autonomy is the “disruptive innovation”, it is not yet clear who will get there first. Maybe it is Tesla. Maybe it is Waymo. Regardless, many or most people seem to agree that it will arrive in 202x.

Image: Tesla

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[Technology 77] ALL ABOUT INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES