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There are fairings and then there are fairings, meet the H-D CVO Road Glide ST
btw the āmudā spatters on the mudguard? Intentional, they are āforgedā 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 thereās this:
Which is more performative bullshit. EPA doesnāt mandate this technology, but the EU does and automakers arenāt going to spend the money to remove something one place and keep it in another without a good reason. And, while Iāve been in some cars with some really bad implementations of AS/S, Iāve been in some cars with really good ones (my car is a mild hybrid and most of the time I donāt even notice when itās on so I donāt bother to turn it off most of the time ā only exception is on hot days when I want to keep the AC running). Iāve also never been in a car with this technology where it canāt be turned off relatively easily.
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Donāt care; I can turn it off.
Which I have when the battery was low. Or in hot weather.
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Exactly ā for all the people who complain about this, itās easy to turn it off. On my car, itās a physical button and itās such a good implementation I donāt bother most of the time anyway. On my Mrs. Ficusā car, itās a little more annoying of a system, but disabling it is two taps on the infotainment screen. Itās just not that big of a deal. It legitimately does save fuel and reduce emissions.
Itās 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 Iāve 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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Iām pretty sure he doesnāt even drive his own golf cart.
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Oh, yeah? Hereās a fairing for ya! 
BTW: Iām still bothered by Wordle not accepting āfairingā awhile back. āTee-hee!ā, as I triumphantly entered it in. Then āboo-hoo!ā 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 kidās 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 Endorā¦
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Project Binkyās cross brace has āP.T.O.ā impressed into it.
As in, āPlease Turn Overā.
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What I would like to see is data that says the starter system doesnāt 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 itās dumb to put orders-of-magnitude more stress on that system.
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Iāve long wondered about that. Weāve got a Forester (60k or so miles) that has it.
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