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Wait until you find out how many gas and diesel powered trucks are RWD! At least in the U.S. below a certain ~longitude~ latitude it's quite common.
by neogodless 5mo ago
Wait until you find out how many gas and diesel powered trucks are RWD!
At least in the U.S. below a certain ~longitude~ latitude it's quite common.
- discors 5mo ago> neogodless: <snip> At least in the U.S. below a certain longitude is quite common. Latitude.
- neogodless 5mo agoI KNEW I was going to get that wrong.
- bobthepanda 5mo agoThe mnemonic i use is latitude is flat.
- triceratops 5mo agoLatitude is the only one that matters between the two.
- rkomorn 5mo agoI was going to ask if you were making a joke or just too tired to spell mnemonic correctly, but they would've been pneumatic, not pneumonic. Edit: oh, boo, you fixed it.
- bobthepanda 5mo agoHadn’t had the morning coffee yet.
- neogodless 5mo agoI usually say to myself "ladder" and that helps. But this time I slipped. Rough morning. Wheels fell off on the way to work.
- DangitBobby 5mo agolatitude -> flatitude
- mtklein 5mo agoI hate to admit it, but the Corona "Change your Latitude" ads are what locked it in for me.
- bobthepanda 5mo agoAs they say, if it works it’s not stupid.
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoHa! Mine is the Jimmy Buffett song.
- dec0dedab0de 5mo agoI say longitude goes longways, which I know isn't accurate except fairly close to the poles, but I remembered it like that when I was a kid and it stuck.
- yread 5mo agoLongitude is also twice as long - 360 vs 180 degrees
- BobaFloutist 5mo agoIt's counterintuitive because the prefix refers to the lines, but we're usually describing points along the lines. We know intuitively that "lateral" is side to side, and "long/length" we would expect to be vertical, but that describes where the lines sit, and the measurements are perpendicular to where the lines sit: you choose a horizontal line to describe a height(/length), and a vertical one to describe width. So just remember that it's opposite to intuition, which will work until you've gotten comfortable enough that your intuition is correct and will then guide you exactly opposite.
- mikestew 5mo agoI use Jimmy Buffet’s song “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude”, meaning head south to Key West to change your attitude. Ergo, latitude is north/south. EDIT: ninja’ed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065792
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- raverbashing 5mo agoEasier mnemonic: Lots of wines advertise their latitude of origin Longitudes are meaningless for wines
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- wil421 5mo agoAutotrader says there are 246,000 used trucks for sale nationwide with AWD/4WD and 38,000 with rear wheel drive. For new it’s 429,000 AWD/4WD vs 51,000 for rear wheel. Volume wise it’s of course Texas with Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota having the largest ownership share.
- Tanoc 5mo agoThe majority in that statistic are selectable 4WD, which isn't the same as AWD. Pushing the two groups together skews the numbers a bit. Most trucks since the 1970s have been 4WD, ever since companies like Muncie and Borg-Warner started selling axles to Ford and their cohorts. AWD trucks are a relatively new phenomenon, with the first one I can think of being the limited production GMC Syclone in 1989, and it being a truck was an emissions loophole. I think the 2005 Honda Ridgeline was the first real mass produced AWD truck, or perhaps the Subaru Baja from 2003 if you consider that a truck rather than an open deck car. Right now I think only the Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and Ford Maverick are sold as AWD, whereas every other truck is selectable 4WD.
- wil421 5mo agoPush the goal posts of you want. OP specifically said rear wheel drive. There’s a whole community that doesn’t consider anything without front and rear lockers, dana 44 axels, frame on body, and 37s with bead lock a real off road rig.
- Tanoc 5mo agoThere is a difference between AWD and 4WD, because 4WD trucks are RWD until you manually change the mode. AWD is all on all the time and is FWD biased, usually something like 70:30 F:R. For most of their lives, even when towing, 4WD trucks are used as RWD only. As for specialized off-road vehicles that wasn't what we were talking about, but yes those people split hairs down to the micron for what constitutes what.
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