The blog of a Leslie Wong
Nico Rosberg, Mercedes Grand Prix Petronas Formula One Team driver, explains all the buttons and dials on Michael Schumacher’s 2011 steering wheel.
I saw this video originally on Wired.com and I was going to embed their video but they just took it from the Official Youtube channel of the Mercedes Grand Prix Petronas Formula One Team and stuck the Wired brand on it.
I was reading Robert Scoble’s post about the AT&T-T-Mobile deal (One bad company buying another: AT&T buys TMobile) and he mentioned, “Devil’s Slide (cell service) is non-existent for AT&T and TMobile, but works the entire way on Verizon for me.”
Devil’s Slide is an area of steep cliffs along the Pacific Ocean about five miles south of San Francisco, California. This stretch of Highway 1 can induce acrophobia if you start thinking about driving your car off the road. This is a good piture of it showing the road slicing right across Devil’s Slide. This part of the highway is “remote,” in that the extreme terrain doesn’t allow for much habitability for a few miles on either side. Maybe that’s the reason AT&T and T-Mobile didn’t care about a dead spot for a few miles, though I wouldn’t recommend checking your phone’s signal while driving this stretch of road, especially if you are driving in a sporting manner.
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) started building a tunnel in 2005 to bypass the area prone to rock slides so Highway 1 won’t keep getting closed. The tunnel is 4200 feet (1,280 m) long and will be completed in 2011. On October 1, 2010, they punched through one of the tunnels. I just wrote all this because the video reminded me of Total Recall.
The Petersen Automotive Museum show, Supercars: When Too Much Is Almost Enough opens March 5, 2011.
The first supercar I remember was the Lamborghini Miura. In the ’60’s, I read a road test in Car and Driver or Road and Track, where the author (Brock Yates? P. J. O’Rourke?, David E. Davis?) recalled driving at a sedate 100 mph in Nevada when a Porsche came up from behind flashing it’s headlights. He said they’d normally be polite and move over, but in the Miura, they downshifted two gears and left the Porsche way behind.
Photo courtesy of createordie
A stop motion version of director Peter Yate’s famous car chase scene from the Oscar winning film, Bullitt. Emigre says, “The completed film will be ready for youtube in early 2011.”
from Hemming’s Blog
What does it mean, that I still have my Aurora Thunderjet 500 Stirling Moss Model Motoring track and cars from 60’s AND an AFX set from the 80’s?