Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Engineering Explained" channel.

  1. They should list them as Watt, then in brackets the HP equivalent. Do this for a couple decades, then eventually drop the HP.
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  2. Yup. Bottom price usually involves serious sacrifice, and high end had diminishing returns. Plus, midrange is usually the highest selling so you get economies of scale benefits.
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  3. My 2016 MacBook Pro came with only usb-c ports. I STILL can't walk into Best Buy and buy a usb-c external hard drive or memory stick. It's a joke.
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  4. @Noah McNeill Diesels are widely available. Most heavy duty trucks are diesel. For cars it's basically non existent (other than Smart cars, oddly enough), but big diesel trucks like the Ford 350 are all over North America because that's how the blue collar trades get down. If you need to tow trailers or do heavy hauling, there's a good chance you drive a diesel.
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  5. Define cold. I live in the Canadian prairies. A Tesla at -40 I doubt could get to the corner store and back.
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  6. 15:13 absolutely incorrect. You say that "every single time" ABS will win that is not true. I live in Canada so I have driven on icy roads more times than I can count and I absolutely promise you that in the vehicles I've driven (2005 Explorer, 2012 Focus, 2014 Camry, 2015 F350) I can stop better on extremely slippery roads, hands down and it's not even close. In every other situation, I agree ABS is vastly superior. In extremely slippery conditions, all the vehicles I've driven "chatter" when you slam on the brakes with ABS which significantly increase your stopping distance. It certainly can be the difference between sliding into that intersection or not, or hitting that snowbank or not. I couldn't give a rats ass what a chart wants to tell me, I've experienced this hundreds and hundreds of times.
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  7. Vegans and veterans. You never have to wonder if someone is either of them. They'll tell you.
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  8.  @shr2000  4 ports. I love how i can charge from either side of the computer though. That was the ONLY benefit.
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  9.  @Roxor128  Only to the old people. The kids will grow up learning only metric.
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  10. You clearly never owned one, haha. I loved mine, but goddamn was it brutal on gas.
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  11. Less buttons? Booooooo!!!!! Having things take more steps to accomplish than before is an engineering fail, period. An engineer's WHOLE purpose is to accomplish a task as efficiently as possible. This is like having a pro DSLR that's entirely touch screen as opposed to all the buttons and options available instantly via buttons.
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  12.  @Kenchinito2207  Corrosion.
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  13. This video outlines why I don't like environmental issues. People concentrate 95% on carbon. Environmental degradation is SOOOOO much bigger than just carbon (which is only "bad" in the concentration, whereas the chemicals that go into the paint are bad period). I wish we'd stop putting a disproportionate amount of our environmental effort into carbon reduction and instead look at the bigger picture.
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  14.  @logitech4873  I put carbon reduction far down the list. Deforestation and loss of habitat is far more important. (that's separate from carbon because more carbon is actually increasing overall tree numbers because they're growing further north). Water pollution is way further up the list for me, with microplastics being near the top of the water pollution list. There are many things that are right here, right now and easily dealt with. We can save whole species and ecosystems right now. I don't worry about 2 degrees over the next century nearly as much as I worry about border walls hurting animal migration. Let's worry about the ecosystem as it is right here and now. People would rather worry about and abstract paradigm decades in advance so they change their lightbulb and pat themselves on the back while eating foods made of palm kernel oil. Also, global warming is not all bad. It increases forest size, and many animals benefit from it. It's overall a bad thing, but I think not nearly as much as the 60% wildlife loss we face over the last half century, or the polluted rivers in SE Asia type deal. I care more about nuclear vs solar as far as the environmental impacts their mining and construction and disposal have vs carbon in and of itself. Putting gazillions towards "carbon capture" I think is a misallocation of resources.
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  15. keep driving it. Mine sat for about a year (only had 39,000kms on it) and I had to pay $2k to get it running again. (I knew that so I would run it around the parking lot sometimes, but the battery died so it just sat for too long).
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