superfastmatt
Matt Brown
superfastmatt
Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.

I don’t know about all that engineerolegal speak (I don’t even understand my own patents), but it looks like it has two separate countershafts and one main shaft, so the extra clutch is just required because there is an extra countershaft. Read more

Level 6 control would be when robot makes all the decisions, including where to go and when. Level 7 control is where the robot is not only in control, but is subtly convincing the occupant that they are in control, and Level 8 control is The Matrix. Read more

Will the driverless Mustangs be programmed to do burnouts into crowds, or is that like an aftermarket add-on? Read more

I blew out a tire driving over a ladder because some ass didn’t tie it down. Read more

That Jeep is in remarkably good shape for having tumbled down a goddamn mountain. Read more

Maybe for contrast, CR could have a sister blog that posts an article every time there is a non-autopilot traffic fatality. You’d have a hundred posts a day for the US alone, plenty of opportunity to find blame with all sorts of things that aren’t the person behind the wheel. Read more

My favorite track I’ve driven was an infield course with a change from old asphalt to new asphalt in the middle of a high g corner. It would totally disrupt the car, and the fastest way around seemed to be to apex at the transition and just let the car go into drift mode. Read more

Well if you decide to make it happen, let me know and I’ll bring my S600.

There should be a Zero Fucks Given car show across the street at the same time next year with ratted out jalopies and people who built them. Tickets are $2.50 and come with a free can of Tecate. I’d go to that show. Read more

Inflation is historically 3%ish (less so recently), so prices should go up by that every year barring other factors. Read more

$260. Or a tenth that if you’re good with arduino and a soldering iron. Read more

He said 40 in the police report. Not quite sure how I’m not dead. Read more

I got t boned by this guy a little over a month ago. My leg is broken in several places, and I have to buy a new helmet, but guess whose head is not smeared across the windshield of a 2015 Ford Mustang. Wear your fucking gear.

What’s the over under on this video showing up in an insurance fraud case? Read more