Having the brakes removed from your car is a personal decision
@chgoliz wrote: Damn you! I really did have coffee in my mouth when I read that. Took an astonishing amount of self control, I tell you. Read full topic
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@WearySky wrote: Agreed. You might not be able to get a manual transmission on every make/model, but MANY cars offer a manual transmission option. Nicely, on most models it's cheaper too, which is...
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@JustSomeReason wrote: But you can throw a corporate board out of office by not buying their goods. Requires a coordinated campaign with many others, but that's no different than voting politicians...
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@Medievalist wrote: Thank you for a thoughtful and interesting post; I rarely see that in any public discussion touching on vaccination. Read full topic
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@MikeKStar wrote: kupfernigk: The only virtue of the manual transmission is that it is cheap, and relatively easy to design because the driver is left to deal with its inadequacies. One definite...
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@kupfernigk wrote: jlw: Having deep experience with the Toyota CV gears in both a Prius Rather clever as there is no CVT in a Prius. Read full topic
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@GilbertWham wrote: http://www.autoevolution.com/news/this-is-how-toyota-prius-gearbox-works-video-63918.html Read full topic
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@Frank_Intereo wrote: I think at least in the media and or forums that the debate is getting a lot more polarized. I don't think it really helps anyone. Parents' fear and emotions are getting the...
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@jlw wrote: kupfernigk: Rather clever as there is no CVT in a Prius. Really? All their hybrids don't use a CV transmission? So much for that. The Highlander certainly had one. Point remains: I prefer...
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@Medievalist wrote: The Prius transmission is utterly brilliant, and while some people categorize it as a CVT I think that's incorrect. It's way better than other CVTs. (Too bad the cabin interior was...
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@jlw wrote: It is one of the loudest cars wrt road noise I've driven and the braking was completely under powered. Felt unsafe. 2008 or so model. Read full topic
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@noahdjango wrote: (and @WearySky) it's true, I was being hyperbolic when I wrote "none," but it didn't come across in print ┐(´∀｀)┌ chgoliz: Damn you! heh--I got a million of 'em! Read full topic
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@kupfernigk wrote: A CVT is normally a transmission in which a belt runs between two sets of conical pulleys which can be set to different separations to change the effective gear ratio. It is...
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@zathras wrote: Actually, it is very different. I need to do without the services provided by the company until my campaign is successful, so I incur costs whenever I "vote" against powerful people....
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@GilbertWham wrote: Aye, I posted before I looked properly... Read full topic
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@jr12 wrote: Measles at present is no longer endemic to the US, nearly every new case is imported from other counties where it is more prevalent or common, and then potentially spread in our...
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@Leila wrote: Some thoughts: First, I just don't understand the controversy. When I was growing up in New England, along about March, when the snow had melted, we would all get into the car and drive...
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@Medievalist wrote: kupfernigk: Calling the Prius a CVT is simply to adopt confusing terminology, because it works on a totally different principle Wikipedia says "A continuously variable transmission...
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@kupfernigk wrote: Medievalist: Wikipedia says "A continuously variable transmission (CVT), (also known as single-speed transmission, gearless transmission, one-speed automatic, variable pulley...
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@Leila wrote: Sharing more thoughts. I think it would be interesting if Mr. Doctrow took up this subject again, without parody. I wasn't really confused when I wrote about gathering brakes,...
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@Medievalist wrote: When I was a child in the sixties* we were lined up in the elementary school gym on the first day of public school and forcibly vaccinated with a big pneumatic gun. Some kids had...
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@Leila wrote: Wow, Medieval, your post with those pictures brings back more memories. I think most of our shots were done in Ol' Doc Hudson's office (if you were sick, he came to your house-how 'bout...
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@daneel wrote: Leila: I'm wondering if it would help if the vaccinations came in sugar cubes instead of a shot. Didn't they do that with Polio vaccines? I remember trying to watch them inject me with...
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@davide405 wrote: daneel: I remember trying to watch them inject me with the BCG at school, and the nurse wouldn't let me look. I remember seeing what happens when one of those pneumatic,...
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