[OT] Engine braking

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 19:40:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
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> My current car is a nice and economic Honda Fit. It is the very 
> last internal combustion engine I'll ever own - I hope my next 
> car will be a Tesla (regardless of what anyone thinks about it 
> being a status symbol). Buying a dinosaur juice-based engine at 
> this point is as much fail as buying a carriage with horses in 
> 1915. I predict that internal combustion engines will be seen 
> in less than a hundred years as weird inefficient contraptions, 
> like we think of steam engines today.
>
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If you really want to go green, you should get an electric bike
and ride that :o) Then no one can accuse you of buying it as a
status symbol, but of course you will likely be killed by one of
the Hummer drivers.

Craig