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Article: The Great Debate: Air vs. Hydros
Air or juice? It’s the age-old debate that’s drawn a ton of opinions, so in this issue we’ll be going over the pros and cons of each suspension application. For the most part, these systems were designed to give us the stance and height adjustment we need, and while they’re similar in many ways, there’s…
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Video: Clip from “LOWRIDER History of Hydraulics”
Mini-Trucks/Lowriders Hydraulics Bed Spinning. Enjoy this classic footage.
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Article: Anatomy Of A Lowrider-The Standards, The Art, The Technology
Arevalo is often a judge at competitions and explains that there’s a right way to display a lowrider. The rims and tires have to be authentic. They have to be always clean, always nice. The lowrider has to have hydraulic switches. All of the chrome has been polished and restored. The undercar has to be…
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Article: Main Street Showdown – Espanola, New Mexico
The northern New Mexico town of Española is located just north of Santa Fe, between Los Alamos and Taos. Approximately 10,000 people live in the town that was established in 1598 by Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate. Being surrounded by historic attractions and having its own arts community, Española is a must-visit tourist stop…
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Article: In Search of the Electric Lowrider
As a kid in East L.A., Alvaro Sanchez learned the importance of shade. https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-5-september-october/faces-clean-energy/search-electric-lowrider
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Article: Ford looks to geckos to boost the recyclability of its cars
In recent years, the Ford Motor Company has aggressively sought to solve environmental problems related to its products while reducing production costs. Wasted wheat straw often burned by Canadian farmers has been blended into a plastic feature of the Ford Flex to reduce petroleum use. Plastic bottles have been converted into fibers to cover the…
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Video: Biomimicry- How cars rip off nature
Engineers, scientists and architects are constantly using inspiration from nature in their quest for innovation and with good reason. Why not cheat and get a couple billion year head start in your design process. On todays episode of B2B, we’re going to look at how nature inspires the auto industry to build not more eye…
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Articles: Moral Machines- How culture changes values
When a driver slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a pedestrian crossing the road illegally, she is making a moral decision that shifts risk from the pedestrian to the people in the car. Self-driving cars might soon have to make such ethical judgments on their own — but settling on a universal moral code…
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Video: Vehicles Of The Future – Future Transportation System 2050
The transportation system in the future will be very different from our current system. We will see flying cars, self-driving cars, passenger drones, hyperloop one system that is projected to reach a top speed of 760 mph (1,220 km/h) and with Starship and the Super Heavy Rocket, most journeys will taking less than 30 minutes,…
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Article: Painting Cars for Mars
What does NASA do to get a rover ready for Mars? JPL’s paint shop does a thousand different paint jobs a year. And while every piece of spacecraft that comes through the shop is important, one headed for the Red Planet adds a little extra oomph. https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22084/painting-cars-for-mars/
