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>Gearing doesn't make sense. I can keep higher RPM but turn cylinders off to reduce power and cap the consumption and speed if I'd like to, but it's not impleme
by itsoktocry 3y ago
>Gearing doesn't make sense. I can keep higher RPM but turn cylinders off to reduce power and cap the consumption and speed if I'd like to, but it's not implemented.
"Why doesn't trillion dollar industry with millions of engineering hours devoted to optimizing performance just do X, Y, Z?" is classic HN.
- Eisenstein 3y agoThere should be a 'rule' (in the style of Godwin's or similar) regarding people making overly reductive, grand statements in areas way outside of their expertise.
- bayindirh 3y agoSometimes knowledgeable people ask dumb questions on purpose. :D
- Eisenstein 3y agoThat's not what I mean though -- what I mean is like saying 'just add more lanes and that will fix traffic', and not knowing how wrong you are since the reason it won't work is not intuitive.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoThe OP didn't break that rule. They asked a question, they didn't make a statement.
- szundi 3y agoActually he wrote “gearing does not make sense” - something based on every car having gearing makes me wonder this might make sense Also he asked a question
- bryanlarsen 3y ago"does not make sense" means "I do not understand", implying to me he wants to be enlightened. If you're trying to be generous, which you should be.
- bayindirh 3y ago> classic HN. Thanks. Actually I know about cars more than I show for reasons I won't detail, but I wanted to people to voice their opinions on the matter. Having prejudices about people without asking them proper questions is so classic HN, too.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoWhy do we ask those questions? Because we want to know the answer, that's why. The OP didn't say that they should do X, Y, Z, they asked why they didn't. The OP likely knew there was a good reason, and wanted to know what it was.