mildchalupa

Life's dangerous.

Roughly 30k cycles is typical. You can certainly design a spring to have infinite life. But it requires reducing average deflection, aka more spring with less deflection per turn.

People think garage door springs are like diffusing a bomb. It's not that bad if you are competent and have the correct equipment.

This is a wild proposition. Were taxis running directly after 9/11?

This is sort of a problem if a society depends on them as a piece of critical infrastructure. If a city owns a bus route and needs to evacuate a population, they can just do it by edict.

No one is considering this edge case and how it should be handled at Uber. A company or community that has pride in what they offer would probably provide rides for free during such an anomaly. This is a drawback on the scalability of technology as we currently implement it.

Large CNC machines that are not exportable under ITAR use GPS and other sensors to detect movement.

Sustainable forrest management requires frequent controlled burns to manage underbrush. Around Michigan this can be a yearly occurrence.

I have a new one. PM had determined that their work load is diminished if a project is killed. So they deliberately recommend that projects be terminated and or do things that would cause the likelihood of termination to increase.

I thought it was determined to be a glove finger knitting apparatus.

1000 pieces is a soft tool Millions are expected out of hard tooling.

Probably a bimodal distribution here in terms of homeschool education.

Though the entire set is probably more useful and practical.

The four wheeling and automotive communities in general have been in disarray lately based on the instant gratification of Facebook groups, and chats such as slack and discord.

Partially because these systems are far simpler for adding audiovisuals however the utility of an organized system with archived knowledge is lost. When Photobucket took down user uploaded content troves of niche information were lost. I do hope that as the cost of saving data reduces over time that data rot is generally reduced. Troves of nontrivial knowledge being destroyed is abhorrent.

Primarily I believe that the difficulty is in the fact that social media is designed to be addictive. Not to be an archive of knowledge.

That's like living in Ohio

Lessened visibility is due completely to rollover protection regulations. Vehicles around the 2010's+ require stronger A,B,C...pillars etc. Automakers complied with the regulations by making pillers both larger and shorter. Shorter members are stronger as there is less bending moment. If you look at where the windows start on newer vehicles they are munch higher. Thus body lines to match this brings up the hood.

This is astoundingly obvious when you park an unmodified 80's-90's vehicle next to something new.

The question to me is what overall reduces mortality rates, improved roll-over and side impact protection or driver visibility?

Personally I think blind spots everywhere suck and would much prefer better visibility.

Here's an example, before WWII brake lines were made out of Monel, a corrosion proof material aside from galvanic. Nickel and copper being expensive and needed elsewhere the lines were made then made from painted steel. After the war steel lines became the standard.

The cost difference is small but it's indicative of a larger issue of disposability. One of the reasons Japanese vehicles started to dominate was that they lasted longer. This is due to better tolerances, more efficient engines, and more robust component design.

The Toyota production method, lean and just-in-time were mostly methods for rationalizing better systems to eliminate waste within production and to minimize inventory. Such methods don't inherently make a better car though they leave more io the table to spend on coatings, quality parts etc.