There are fairings and then there are fairings, meet the H-D CVO Road Glide ST
btw the “mud” spatters on the mudguard? Intentional, they are “forged” carbon fibre, so it will never look clean (also used all over the bike).
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Not sure if this belongs here or in the The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2) topic (probably both), but there’s this:
Which is more performative bullshit. EPA doesn’t mandate this technology, but the EU does and automakers aren’t going to spend the money to remove something one place and keep it in another without a good reason. And, while I’ve been in some cars with some really bad implementations of AS/S, I’ve been in some cars with really good ones (my car is a mild hybrid and most of the time I don’t even notice when it’s on so I don’t bother to turn it off most of the time – only exception is on hot days when I want to keep the AC running). I’ve also never been in a car with this technology where it can’t be turned off relatively easily.
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Don’t care; I can turn it off.
Which I have when the battery was low. Or in hot weather.
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Exactly – for all the people who complain about this, it’s easy to turn it off. On my car, it’s a physical button and it’s such a good implementation I don’t bother most of the time anyway. On my Mrs. Ficus’ car, it’s a little more annoying of a system, but disabling it is two taps on the infotainment screen. It’s just not that big of a deal. It legitimately does save fuel and reduce emissions.
It’s just more performative bullshit from the bullshit EPA administrator trying to dunk on the libs rather than do his job improving the environment.
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The one vehicle I’ve been in where this was implemented in an awkward way was in a gasoline-powered golf cart. So maybe Trump, who is probably has far more experience driving golf carts than regular cars, had a bad experience with one of those once and decided he wanted to rid the earth of them.
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I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even drive his own golf cart.
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Oh, yeah? Here’s a fairing for ya! 
BTW: I’m still bothered by Wordle not accepting “fairing” awhile back. “Tee-hee!”, as I triumphantly entered it in. Then “boo-hoo!” NYT truly sucks.
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I can see police departments wasting public funds on this so they can tech-up and crystalize their empire stormtrooper self-image, while traffic safety bureaus and nearby drivers have their own takes on the matter.
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Giving off seriously major, enemy sea vessel Stingray kid’s show vibes!
@timd Scrolling through upward, I missed your Anderson comment before responding above! Talk about being on the same page!
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Something, something, stormtroopers on Endor…
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Project Binky’s cross brace has “P.T.O.” impressed into it.
As in, “Please Turn Over”.
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What I would like to see is data that says the starter system doesn’t prematurely degrade with so many more start cycles. The starter motor and solenoid are some of the soonest-replaced major parts in most cars. I think it’s dumb to put orders-of-magnitude more stress on that system.
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I’ve long wondered about that. We’ve got a Forester (60k or so miles) that has it.
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I’d guess this has a negligible impact and automakers design their ignition for the stresses of this system.
It’s a warm start versus a cold start so the engine is at temperature with the fuel system fully primed, these cars use batteries with an AGM chemistry that’s more tolerant of abuse, and use reinforced starters.
It should be fine. 
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