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ferongr
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  1. The vacuum reservoir of the brake booster in cars with vacuum servo brakes (whether vacuum is generated by the engine or an electric pump is irrelevant) stores enough energy for 3-4 full applications of the brakes.
  2. Please post some judicial decisions regarding your claim.
  3. Common in ICE cars oo, mostly turbo ones. The difference between the 100HP model and the 120HP model is only an ECU map.
  4. Service workers in coffee shops stand all day here in enlightened Europe too.
  5. All this effort wasted on using a really bad keyboard as a base.
  6. I'd like to use it because I support the creator's stated mission, but for me, performance seems very slow and unreliability is lacking

      192.168.  1.  1 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      - Cached Name   | 0.000 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.001 | 100.0 |
      - Uncached Name | 0.025 | 0.080 | 0.304 | 0.059 | 100.0 |
      - DotCom Lookup | 0.027 | 0.039 | 0.129 | 0.026 | 100.0 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
               Non-routable local internet address
                    Local Network Nameserver
    
    
        1.  1.  1.  1 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      + Cached Name   | 0.027 | 0.029 | 0.039 | 0.001 | 100.0 |
      + Uncached Name | 0.028 | 0.037 | 0.080 | 0.016 | 100.0 |
      + DotCom Lookup | 0.029 | 0.034 | 0.059 | 0.007 | 100.0 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
                         one.one.one.one
                        CLOUDFLARENET, US
    
    
        1.  0.  0.  1 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      + Cached Name   | 0.029 | 0.030 | 0.050 | 0.003 | 100.0 |
      + Uncached Name | 0.029 | 0.049 | 0.196 | 0.031 | 100.0 |
      + DotCom Lookup | 0.029 | 0.035 | 0.070 | 0.009 | 100.0 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
                         one.one.one.one
                        CLOUDFLARENET, US
    
    
        8.  8.  4.  4 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      - Cached Name   | 0.059 | 0.066 | 0.151 | 0.015 | 100.0 |
      - Uncached Name | 0.059 | 0.080 | 0.290 | 0.045 | 100.0 |
      - DotCom Lookup | 0.059 | 0.063 | 0.089 | 0.006 | 100.0 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
                           dns.google
                           GOOGLE, US
    
    
        8.  8.  8.  8 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      - Cached Name   | 0.059 | 0.066 | 0.105 | 0.011 | 100.0 |
      - Uncached Name | 0.059 | 0.091 | 0.319 | 0.061 | 100.0 |
      - DotCom Lookup | 0.058 | 0.064 | 0.089 | 0.008 | 100.0 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
                           dns.google
                           GOOGLE, US
    
    
      193.110. 81.  0 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      - Cached Name   | 0.058 | 0.068 | 0.102 | 0.014 |  73.0 |
      - Uncached Name | 0.057 | 0.103 | 0.239 | 0.057 |  70.4 |
      - DotCom Lookup | 0.059 | 0.072 | 0.089 | 0.013 |  57.9 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
                             dns0.eu
                           DNS0EU, FR
    
    
      185.253.  5.  0 |  Min  |  Avg  |  Max  |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
      ----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
      - Cached Name   | 0.066 | 0.071 | 0.110 | 0.007 |  98.0 |
      - Uncached Name | 0.069 | 0.103 | 0.289 | 0.057 |  97.9 |
      - DotCom Lookup | 0.067 | 0.075 | 0.130 | 0.011 |  97.9 |
      ---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
                             dns0.eu
                           DNS0EU, FR
    
    
      UTC: 2025-06-13, from 20:10:13 to 20:11:18, for 01:05.419
  7. Hooks, holes in the backing plate, stamped/cast dimples, welded wire-mesh for the backing material to adhere to.
  8. Pads were the friction material is solely using glue to adhere to the backing plate are generally either very cheap aftermarket replacements or the OEM cheapening out.
  9. This is a 2019 article with figures from that time. So it's wildly out of date.
  10. No, they're cheap Chinese honeycomb paper and low density particle board.
  11. On the other hand, normies do ruin everything.
  12. If there was a concept of corporate death penalty, Apple would be one of my top picks for its application.
  13. Nah, with equivalent graphical settings and resolution, the PC would manage at least 3 times the framerate.

    Unsteady 30FPS with terrible frame pacing is nothing that consoles can brag about.

  14. Nothing "directly" runs on 12V either. All electronics will have stepdown converters in both the 12V and 48V use case. Motors, solenoids and incandescent bulbs can be made to work with either voltage (the same way we do for 24V systems in heavy goods vehicles here in Europe).
  15. >Maybe the car has an AC compressor or a pump to cool the battery during charging, which draws directly from the charger when plugged in

    No it doesn't. A/C compressors in EVs are 3 phase AC powered by an inverter supplied by the traction battery.

    The contactors in an EVSE open and close at practically zero current, the OBC ramps the current up or down accordingly. And as another sibling comment noted, the OBCs are PFC corrected and act as a largely resistive load.

  16. That's a USB power supply.
  17. That's terrible. Hacking prevention would make sense if they were ±2 seconds a month.
  18. Which is completely asinine, as mechanical watches, even expensive ones are inaccurate by many seconds every day.
  19. >It connects us with joyful movement

    This means nothing.

  20. I don't know why this is downvoted but it's more or less correct regarding the industry here in Europe.
  21. No. The energy use is comparatively miniscule and weight (to a point) doesn't really matter for high speed, highway driving efficiency.
  22. Don't leave a person in the car.
  23. Don't leave a person in the car.
  24. It's a pretty standard feature here in Europe. In any case, if you've locked the doors from the outside, there should be no reason for the internal handles or unlock switches to be operational.
  25. This isn't true for any modern car. Even my 2006 VAG shitbox has a double locking feature, where locking the doors from the outside disables the handles on the interior and the unlock switches.
  26. Not a Golf. Shorter body, cheap torsion beam rear suspension instead of multilink. This is an e-Polo.
  27. Is this satire?
  28. Not in countries with socialized health care. I shouldn't have to pay for other people's recklessness.
  29. Google Maps is "free" in the same way healthcare is "free" in many countries. The usage of the word seems fine.

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