Cool Lexus Add - Drum Related

[Enigmatic]

Thought you all would enjoy this stuff

 

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[zildjian@consol]

different for shure

[Gremson]

neato.

[Gremson]

I wonder if that was actually built, or it's just computer bull{censored}.

[1001gear]

Serious geek tangent,

Anybody notice car wheels these days? Like the new Vettes and Porches can be had with over 600 HP and both have wheels you wouldn't trust on a bicycle. Something's not right. Can anybody point me to the 'ology behind these new designs?

[cearleywine]

I find it amazing we can buy cars with 600hp, especially due to speed limits. That's like allowing kids to purchase alcohol, but not legal to drink it.

[aenemated]

i'm often amused at the people rolling around LA in these super fast cars.

 

it's like ... ok dude, what's the point? gotta get to that next stoplight/bumper a second faster than the dude in the '87 corrola?

[1001gear]

Well they card before sale lol. Most cars will do 80 - 100 minimum. I don't think you could get a car that can't, certified. Frankly as I get older I feel more and more like 25hp Bugs should be the commuter limit. Smart world we belong to...

[Bitter Dawn]

You're crazy 1k1, most of the wheels on new cars (especially real sport cars, exotics and supercars) look great and, are of course solid.

aenemated: Some people just have too much money, but I've often wondered the same myself about the power of cars versus speed limits.

 

Some, that's to say a very small percentage of sport car owners actually take their cars to race tracks where they either, take lessons on performance driving or, just have car clubs in which they compete via laps. There's nothing quite like finding a nice isolated, twisty back road and pushing yourself to the limits - as I confirmed in '05 while I was in Montana that my car tops out at 130-135mph, not bad for a mere four cylinders.

[1001gear]

Downhill? There's a youtube of somebody going 140 in a stock 2 litre Accord or something. I don't think I've ever driven over 90. Short blasts on the freeway at that.

 

The wheels look extremely lightweight is all. Cut to the extreme. I was just looking for design white papers or some clue how they got there.

[keric]

I've often wondered about the government's rational in setting a speed limit and the car companies blatant disregard for them by building cars that can easily surpass that limit. If you are going to set a limit then why does the government not tell the car companies they must build in a method of keeping their cars to that limit. And why do they allow commercials that show people using their cars in excess of those limits. What other product is manufactured so as to be used so easily to break the laws governing their operation? I drive a 17 ft. box truck every day and I could easily go 90 in it if I wanted to. Why?

[1001gear]

Lethal too. I've wondered same of large SUVs and 150 class pickups. At 30mph they are for all intents and purposes, barreling.

[piersonm]

OP. Nope, I didn't enjoy that.

[Bitter Dawn]

 

Downhill? There's a youtube of somebody going 140 in a stock 2 litre Accord or something. I don't think I've ever driven over 90. Short blasts on the freeway at that. The wheels look extremely lightweight is all. Cut to the extreme. I was just looking for design white papers or some clue how they got there.

 

 

Partially, I was on I-90 at 2-3am'ish and after having had come out of some twists there was a slight hill. Car is an '03 Toyota Celica GT-S and, it took a while to max out sixth gear.

 

Most vehicles do have speed governors on them, ie: when I use to part take in various Celica forums there were instructions on how to remove the governor to reach speeds that exceeded 130-135mph. Why these governors aren't set closer to a sort of national speed limit is beyond me but, I'm not complaining. I think the only reason why vehicles do have governors on them is purely for engine security so the operator doesn't potentially blow the engine.

[SYMBOLIC]

+1 Even the Bugatti Veyron is limited to 251-253 mph. You don't want to pay for a new W16 if you blow yours up.

[1001gear]

They might have rev limiters but I always thought carspeed was HP vs wind resistance.

[1001gear]

BTW YTube sports cars is a favorite pastime and the Lexus clip is not unenjoyable. (best I can do) I don't get the drift - so to speak. It's like that Cake clip. Beat with some buzz.

[fusionfunk]

I've often wondered about the government's rational in setting a speed limit and the car companies blatant disregard for them by building cars that can easily surpass that limit. If you are going to set a limit then why does the government not tell the car companies they must build in a method of keeping their cars to that limit. And why do they allow commercials that show people using their cars in excess of those limits. What other product is manufactured so as to be used so easily to break the laws governing their operation? I drive a 17 ft. box truck every day and I could easily go 90 in it if I wanted to. Why?

 

Because it would be unconstitutional for one. The government shouldn't be allowed to tell US anything. It was designed by the Forefathers for US to tell the government. That seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the trail.

 

You're not a socialist, are you? :poke:

[drumnhands]

 

I wonder if that was actually built, or it's just computer bull{censored}.

 

 

It's real. We had a support crew on hand to tune and adjust the drums for the shoot. The car runs over the sensors that trigger the devices that hit the drums. Everything is spaced out on the floor so that the time between the hits is worked out to play the groove. It was pretty amazing how the whole thing came together.

[twosticks]

Because it would be unconstitutional for one. The government shouldn't be allowed to tell US anything. It was designed by the Forefathers for US to tell the government. That seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the trail. You're not a socialist, are you? :poke:

 

Plus cars were invented before speed limits and other road rules were imposed. Just by design even on the older engines and cars, they were able to go faster than horses and other modes of transportation. Speed limits came later and has become the tradition or custom.

 

Second, having extra speed or power is needed to avoid a crash or being ran over, coming downhill with a semi behind you is no time to have a governor. Or turn into a place before a herd of cars comes. I don't think is possible to have car that will allow you to accelerate out of the way and yet be limited on speed. Plus might add more parts and a great cost to car makers to do so if it's possible. Plus would add a huge cost for you to buy a car with it.

 

Third, like Funk is saying. Why do they allow stoves to get so hot that they could burn you? How come they don't have a charcoal that just gets warm and is safe to touch? Or a blade that cuts grass but won't cut a hand? It's called personal responsibility and can have laws to maintain proper use of things, but to prevent use of items is denying freedoms in a sense and not using common sense. Instead of saying "there should be a law" We should enforce more of the existing laws to rid the ones that cannot partake in the freedoms of the rest of us have rather than lower the rest of us down to the level of those that cannot handle these things on their own.

 

Is NOT the government's job or business to protect us from ourselves. Just like the Waltons or the Cartwrights, is up to us to make our own living and not those in Washington to decide what we can have or not have.

[Bitter Dawn]

Very well said twosticks, now if only DC fully adhered to this.

[1001gear]

whatever...

 

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[Phrozt]

 

I've often wondered about the government's rational in setting a speed limit and the car companies blatant disregard for them by building cars that can easily surpass that limit. If you are going to set a limit then why does the government not tell the car companies they must build in a method of keeping their cars to that limit. And why do they allow commercials that show people using their cars in excess of those limits. What other product is manufactured so as to be used so easily to break the laws governing their operation? I drive a 17 ft. box truck every day and I could easily go 90 in it if I wanted to. Why?

 

 

Looooooll... are you serious?

 

Car companies don't give a {censored} about speed limits... they want to sell cars. A lot of people buy cars to go fast.

 

If everyone cared about speed limits/the earth/being hippies/etc, everyone would be driving a prius. How many of those do you see running around?

 

Case in point.

[keric]

 

Looooooll... are you serious? Car companies don't give a {censored} about speed limits... they want to sell cars. A lot of people buy cars to go fast. If everyone cared about speed limits/the earth/being hippies/etc, everyone would be driving a prius. How many of those do you see running around? Case in point.

 

 

I thought I was serious. I see a lot people driving the Prius around here. I don't know what that has to do with speed limits though because I'm sure you can easily exceed the speed limit in one of those. I don't care if people buy a certain car to drive fast in. If the government is going to set limits to how fast you can operate your car then I see no reason for them to allow them to be manufactured to easily surpass that limit and then further allow the car companies to advertise them being used in excess of the limits. We've cut out the airwaves to tabacco advertising, as well as hard liquor for a while, because the government thought it was a bad influence, yet some yahoo driving around in his new car at 100 mph is somehow fine. If the only people that care about this are hippies then I guess I'm happy I hung on to my VW bus complete with flower decals.

[keric]

Because it would be unconstitutional for one. The government shouldn't be allowed to tell US anything. It was designed by the Forefathers for US to tell the government. That seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the trail. You're not a socialist, are you? :poke:

 

I'm not sure what letting the government set standards has to do with being a socialist. I don't see that as ceding all control over to the government. If I were to believe that I don't see it as being socialist. I think you are thinking of totalitarianism. The idea that our government excist, but shouldn't tell us anything in relation to how to live our lives may be a popular theme in these days of The Tea Party, but it's hardly true or realistic. You have the right to vote for representation to voice your views on issues, but in the end the combined representatives from around the country vote and tell us what we have to do. If we don't like the outcome then we get a chance to vote for new representation. That doesn't mean someone won't be telling us what to do.

 

Did I see you on video at the Glenn Beck rally. :poke:

 

I'm more a Libertarian and apparently a hippie according to Phrotz.