What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Eagle1]

A longer look at VW XL1

 

[BravoXray]

Oh, come on. That story has been around for as long as I can remember so it has to be true!

Back in the '70s, the story was they could get 100 MPG with a carburetor. So I guess with EFI, the figure, they say, is 300 MPG.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Back in the '70s, the story was they could get 100 MPG with a carburetor. So I guess with EFI, the figure, they say, is 300 MPG.

That's with inflation calculated in, right?

 

[Runner]

VW claims 300 mpg or 100k per liter in 2014

 

[WinterDeere]

VW claims 300 mpg or 100k per liter in 2014

Can't watch the video right now, my office mate is on a conference call. But doesn't VW have somewhat of a history of false claims, regarding mileage and emissions?

 

[masseyrider]

Can't watch the video right now, my office mate is on a conference call. But doesn't VW have somewhat of a history of false claims, regarding mileage and emissions?

They did say the Poles threatened them so they had no option but to invade.
It's sort of a national trait.

 

[Jstpssng]

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There's a lot more than a carburetor involved here. Actually no carb, as it's a diesel-electric hybrid. Using that logic a Tesla gets infinite miles per gallon.

 

[garry1p]

I'm sure it has been said before, but for me the upcoming time change is a major pet peeve.

 

[WinterDeere]

I'm sure it has been said before, but for me the upcoming time change is a major pet peeve.

There have been people pushing to stay on daylight savings time, which would be weird. High noon would not be high noon at the geographic center of the time zone, anymore. We would be permanently out of sync with everything from satellites to historical astronomical data, and those countries that don't observe daylight savings time.

Somehow, people are stupid enough to think that's is a better solution than just waking up an hour earlier. As if you're less tired at 5am standard time than 6am daylight time. It's the same time!

 

[Eagle1]

There have been people pushing to stay on daylight savings time, which would be weird. High noon would not be high noon at the geographic center of the time zone, anymore. We would be permanently out of sync with everything from satellites to historical astronomical data, and those countries that don't observe daylight savings time.

Somehow, people are stupid enough to think that's is a better solution than just waking up an hour earlier. As if you're less tired at 5am standard time than 6am daylight time. It's the same time!

I do that now. I never change clocks away from the DST and just do the math if for some odd reason time matters. I do get confused when I computer is an hour off all winter long.