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- Yes crossover drivers, that means you too. Not just the big bro trucks.by olyjohn
- It is not in the article and I have no data to quote but I would think this would be a good "think of the children" moment.by tocs3
- Except that people do "think of the children" when buying larger vehicles, since they believe children should be in the big safe vehicles and never outside as a pedestrian.by jerlam
- It's incredibly stupid to remove substrings from headlines and expect that what comes back will be an improvement or make sense.
- *squints* So you're suggesting that HN auto-removed the phrase "Hundreds of" and then made the "Per" lowercased?
I don't submit enough to judge whether it's HN, or the submitter, or it was accurate and then the remote page changed, but I certainly agree the HN title is goofy.
by Terr_ - I thought this was talking about hoodie hoods and got really confused for a second there about how some hoods could be taller than othersby SpyCoder77
- I thought it'd be a story about the KKK.
- Tall vehicle hoods also increase the drag coefficient. Every deviation from the teardrop shape increases the drag coefficient.
An intake scoop in the hood would qualify as actual air cooling.
by westurner - This was previously discussed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623347
Screeching both (both for and against) ebikes in the comments notwithstanding, the highlight is that the increase is largely independent of vehicle size. By the study's own admission they estimate that ~10% of the effect comes from vehicle size.
Watching this ping pong around the various media outlets with titles seemingly inverse of the study's conclusions and watching people share it and comment based on assuming the title is the beginning and end of it really is eye opening.