G. David Felt

9mm versus 9.1 mm or .357 which has twice the gunpowder of a 9mm as to why it causes more damage. It is all about choices yet if you spent any time in a country that teaches all things metric, it is very easy for a person to visualize a 187 centimeter person. I know after 3 1/2yrs in college in Japan, that is all they see as is pretty much any asian country and it really is not hard to visualize a person size based on the math used predominantly by people. If canada was not next to the US but say Europe, you might be able to better visualize meters rather than feet. Pro's and Con's to both systems Your right most auto's have gone metric, but then you still find weird standard parts on the auto's too, so this is why learning both is important I feel. In regards to Kilowatts versus horsepower, In north America we use horses to visualize power, but in many other places they use energy to visualize the same thing. If we showed a large tesla storage yard to represent power of an auto over showing a range with 300 horses on it running, I think people could understand Kilowatts versus Horsepower. It is all about how and what we use to learn.

You can resist all you want, but we already speak one language of 1's and 0's. After all this whole forum is how it is done, humanity can expand faster if we all used a consistent standard. Metric is superior to the standard system of the US. Just like Europe has embraced our coding that the US created as the programming is superior. Change is inevitable and Metric is a better system just as it is time to move forward with kW (Kilowatts) and nM (Newtmeters) for a fair replacement to Torque and Horsepower. We be the 21st century not the 19th. In all fairness I will still not feel any hostility towards you as you are the keeper of all things OLD and I seriously respect that. History is what we learn from to make the future better. Your "01100001 01110111 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101" For everyone else, what is wrong with knowing both metric and standard systems. Our education system fails all Americans by not teaching what is used globally and still thinking America leads the world in everything. We need better education!

Which makes one wonder if he could not have the Model E, why not the Model Ǝ and really F&*K with Ford! This would then have given Tesla the Following Models: SƎXY

I wish I had been able to take a picture, but driving back home with my lunch in heavy traffic I had a Sprinter van pull in front of me. Specifically it was Sprinter AMG on Left door. V6 Bluetec on Right door. ? If a Performance cargo van is considered Luxury, then MB truly has lost the crown of uber luxury and is now as many here have stated just another Toyota / Chevrolet / Ford, etc. Automaker with some seriously overpriced auto's. SPRINTER AMG Vans? ?

I watched the whole reveal while working till 2am this morning. I will say that the 7 people they had come out of the auto were all around 5'4" or so. They all clearly were shorter than Musk. What little you could see in the videos, I honestly think the 3rd row is for kids or for comfort adults that are little people, under 5' tall. At best maybe 4 people my size can fit in it but in reality, only 2 people my size as in the Model X no one can sit behind me. When it was teased under that black cover from the rear 3/4 shot, first thing in my mind was, Great another ugly Prius type hatchback. Guess I was not far off on it. Yes fits the family, I hope it is successful, but I honestly think Rivian has some better cool stuff in their auto's.

Have not seen it yet, on the movie watch list. I see what you posted so far on the movie. Does sound interesting. Do you feel it was period accurate on all the messaging?

Still interesting that someone has not thought of cherry picking auto's from the numerous lots that are unguarded and doing what those crooks tried to do just smarter in shipping them out of the country. Course, I see no reason for VW to not just dump them all on Pick n Pull lots and let the public pull and pay for the parts they want from those auto's. Money is there to be made.

WOW Pictures from a 100 auto crash on Highway 25 due to the Bomb Cyclone winter storm. http://www.thedrive.com/news/26957/bomb-cyclone-blizzard-causes-disastrous-100-car-pileup-in-colorado Amazed no one is dead, just a few serious injuries. Oops, VW Leadership makes an error in using a slogan that was heavily used by the 3rd Reich in addressing company management. Work will set you free. OUCH ? http://www.thedrive.com/news/26956/volkswagen-ceo-sorry-for-invoking-nazi-slogan-during-company-meeting

Seems all those bought back VW diesel's are prime picking for stealing and shipping out of the country. Guess they just need a smarter crook to do it. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/13/dieselgate-vw-audi-thefts-pontiac-silverdome/

You talking about the movie "Green Book" with Viggo? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6966692/?ref_=nv_sr_2

So then the Cadillac "Dare Greatly" is really DARE GREATLY IN DEPENDS!

What, this does not scream VILLIAN to you? Maybe more Creeper?

EV motors can be built to have a wide range of power based on the software programming. As such, going to kW and nM makes total sense as the software profile will allow you to offer a 300, 400 and 500 or more nM of torque with complimentary kW or HP. One electric motor to rule them all based on the profile loaded to it's controller board.

So then 7 to 10 of them will be sold to the Bond Movie set. After all gotta protect Bond! I can totally see this for the bond series, be interesting to see how they incorporate the ultra quiet Rapid E into what used to be noisy ICE versions. ?

With it in the next bond movie, ya know they will have more than just 2 auto's on the movie set.

This GM Fanboi can respect what you say!

Trade war is causing auto makers to decide what markets to build in. I expect a few more announcements like this due to the current climate of DC.

Thank you for checking this, I wonder why my loaner would not hold any other setting via the buttons. I thought the stop first was weird too. Thank you, appreciate what you did. That complexity keep dementia and alzheimer's away!

I understand your point but then once the internet came around and the ease of moving data across the globe, standards that everyone can understand makes infinitely more sense. Just like daylight saving time where many places outside of the U.S. have stopped using it, now many states are wanting to do the same thing which I support. Just like Metric, it makes products equal on the same footing for global consumption. My only beef here is the Rounding BS. Leave it as it really is. Let the actual numbers speak for themselves. @Drew Dowdell Love the idea of a write-up about the need to remove excessive badging on an auto. Add the IDIOT dealerships that think they can add their own big sticker or stick on badge to the back of your auto. The dealerships are NOT paying me for free advertising.

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While baby boomers and those that hate change will fight this, the global world is changing, EVs will happen and moving to kilowatts rather than Horsepower and Newton Meters rather than lb-ft of torque makes sense. Sadly some will get left behind in the 21st century workplace. As you know Robert working in tech like me, the only thing that is constant is inevitable change and obsolescence.

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I like this, makes better sense to move to Newton Meters and have a global understood standard. I wish the US would get on with modernizing and drop the stupid standard system and move to metric overall. The US would find it so much simpler to do math on everything if we went metric. I wonder how long before we drop Horsepower and go with kW as a global standard for rating of auto's.

The 2019 XT5 I had had the 3 buttons by the shifter but then you had to confirm what you wanted on the digital dash and you truly had to be in park to change anything which does make sense. The only issue is that being the confirmation is on the right smaller midsection of the digital dash, there will be folks that will think they are in sports mode but defaulted back due to not seeing the small confirmation screen. I know it threw me the first time and my wife was not paying attention when she wanted to try it. Cadillacs system might seem simple initially but I think people will be thrown until they realize the confirmation they need to do via the front dash display and steering wheel buttons. Still like the XT5 / 6, but I do feel that GM can still do better.

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