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    davesaddiction

    @davesaddiction

    Ever in search of the ideal three-pedal dad-mobile:
    Acura Legend to Mazda 3s hatch to E90 M3 to SS Sedan (+ 3rd gen Tacoma)
    Plotting future Porsche/Miata/Lotus/Caterham/Ariel ownership...

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    • The Best of OPPO, Hyphen Edition

      Continuing the great work of @DasWauto , and the work several of us carried on under his banner at OppoBlog on Kinja, sifting through the fire hose of OPPO posts to find diamonds among the shitposts, here is the first in what I hope will be a long series of compilations at our new home:

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      The Best of OPPO, Hyphen Ed.

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      (1st edition - November 18th, 2020)

      I suppose something as stubborn and indestructible as Oppo demands respect. Cantankerous Oppo, offered an honorable, merciful death on a platform that has gone to absolute shit since I left but decides instead to take the dying hoopty to an abandoned parking lot to do 20mph loops until the wheels fall off. - Ernie

      OPPO mods: Eat Shit Oppo

      Jordan: This isn't my goodbye post, it's a thank you. (Kinja crosspost)

      mtdrift: The Lost Porsche - Part 3

      Mark Tucker: Dad's Fiat

      sony1492's Potentia (Locost) Build Thread and he went to Arizona

      Old Busted Hotness' guide to light restoration

      doodon2whls visited the Swiss Air Force Museum

      Ranger Smith's Big Cat Rescue

      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly: The Art of Breaking Down in your own Driveway

      WhoIsTheLeader's town's absurb taxi fleet

      CarsOfFortLangley: What Video Game Car Defined Your Youth?

      RacinBob's SAAB 99 Ice Racer back in 2000

      sn4cktimes' goings on in his garage

      Wrong Wheel Drive's Miata workshop

      ItalianJob53's C5 Corvette Review (repost)

      RallyDarkstrike: The FIAT 500, Italy's Cheerful Jelly Bean (repost)

      Just Jeepin's Why Jeeps Matter (repost)

      ttyymmnn found airplane stuff on the internet and documented TDiAH

      Skyfire's Flightline: 75 (more on his profile)

      Urambo Tauro's favorite JRiTS posts

      jminer's got stats!

      RallyDarkstrike made a userguide and shared the OppoMap

      and your humble correspondent, davesaddiction compiled a Kinja post leaderboard

      For any of you who have been featured here, thank you for making OPPO awesome. Please feel free to add this image below to your post, with a link back here, if you'd like. My hope is that this small token of recognition from our community will encourage others to put in the time for long-form articles or high-quality photography, or to start great conversations or take more trips and share them here, and maybe, possibly, to get a few more aspiring writers and photogs their start on a career in automotive journalism, like several OPPO alums have done in the past decade.

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      If I missed your article/photos in this edition, I apologize (thumbnails and good titles help a lot) - please feel free to send me a private message with the link, and if it "passes muster", I'll add it to the next edition.

      Stay excellent,
      Dave

      posted in Best of Oppo
      davesaddiction
      davesaddiction
    • DT's CEO's thoughts on The Hyphen

      Man, this guy is a solid dude.

      https://drivetribe.com/t/opposite-lock-WsyTisBFQiuJU7cDJZttOw/chat

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • Somebody stole my spot!!

      I’ll allow it...

      Just a pair of big cats, resting in the shade. 😁

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • EL_ULY rocks!

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • The Best Of OPPO @ Hyphen, Round 4

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      Continuing the great work of @DasWauto , and the work several of us carried on under his banner at OppoBlog on Kinja, sifting through the fire hose of OPPO posts to find diamonds among the shitposts...


      For any of you who have been featured, thank you for making OPPO awesome. Please feel free to add the image above to your post, with a link back here, if you'd like. My hope is that this small token of recognition from our community will encourage others to put in the time for long-form articles or high-quality photography, or to start great conversations, or take more trips or start more builds and share them here, and maybe, possibly, to get a few more aspiring writers and photogs their start on a career in automotive journalism, like several OPPO alums have done in years past.


      . . . Click here for The Best of OPPO . . .


      Here are the Opponauts featured in The Best of OPPO since Dec. 10th (as I failed to list them in my post on Jan. 28th):

      @tysmagic @ranwhenparked @Skyfire77 @ttyymmnn @orneryduck @Urambo-Tauro @doodon2whls @Peter_Black @100percentjake @i86hotdogs @sony1492 @jayvincent @Exage03040 @Taylor-Martin @annoying_salman @trivet @Noodles @TheDutchTexan @Powershiftmatt @HammerheadFistpunch @Brickman @AestheticsInMotion @WhoIsTheLeader @Distraxi @AkioOhtori @krhodes1 @Rykros-the-Disdainful @CarsOfFortLangley @HFV @nickhasanexocet @FractalFootwork @awesomeaustinv @rctothefuture @way2blu @Needs_Moe_VTEC @ClassicDatsunDebate @StuckMTB @DirtSunrise @Chaplian @Bandit @Shop-Teacher @BicycleBuck

      Authors - if you don't already have a thumbnail image on your featured post(s), please add one.


      FYI - user's posts are not moved over to Best of OPPO until they're at least a week old. If we've missed your article, I apologize (thumbnails and good titles help out a lot) - please feel free to send me a private message with the link, and if it "passes muster", I'll add it.


      Stay excellent,
      Dave

      I suppose something as stubborn and indestructible as Oppo demands respect. Cantankerous Oppo, offered an honorable, merciful death on a platform that has gone to absolute shit since I left but decides instead to take the dying hoopty to an abandoned parking lot to do 20mph loops until the wheels fall off. - Ernie

      posted in Oppositelock
      davesaddiction
      davesaddiction
    • LEGEND

      😁

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • The Ultimate Ground Speed Check - Tales from the Blackbird

      Originally posted on oppositelock.kinja.com (when it was actually a sub-blog of Jalopnik) by @gamecat235 on 8/9/13. The original post had 1.1 million views and over 300 comments.

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      I don't know of any ludicrous speeding tickets so I can't participate in today's QOTD, but it did remind me of my favorite SR-71 story.

      This is an expanded excerpt from Brian Schul's book Sled Driver : Flying the World's Fastest Jet. (which happens to be out of print and ludicrously expensive now, I wish I had bought a copy when I could have afforded it).

      There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.

      It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet.

      I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.

      Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.

      We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."

      Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.

      Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."

      And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.

      Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."

      I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."

      For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."

      It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.

      For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.

      posted in Oppositelock
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    • Evening, OPPO

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • 7.5 years ago, I asked for authorship on OPPO, and nobody gave it to me.

      Anyone could have done it, but nobody did.

      Nobody did it.

      I guess I have nobody to thank...

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • RE: Paging jminer, jminer to the front please...

      @jminer

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    Latest posts made by davesaddiction

    • RE: This is not Oppolitics.

      @pyroholtz

      Since this is a politics thread:

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • RE: CR's video proving that Autopilot will work with no one in the seat.

      @facw

      Plenty of stupidity and recklessness to go around on this one.

      posted in Oppositelock
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      davesaddiction
    • RE: CR's video proving that Autopilot will work with no one in the seat.

      @facw

      The difference is the perceived risk to the driver himself.

      In a normal car, the perceived risk of setting the cruise and getting out of the driver's seat is massive.

      In a Tesla, the perceived risk is minuscule (because of all the reasons stated earlier).

      posted in Oppositelock
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      davesaddiction
    • RE: COTA Tower

      @ttyymmnn

      Our family is heading to Zion in a couple months. I really want to do the Angel's Landing hike one day, but since my wife is likely a "no" and my older two probably aren't quite old enough to be 100% confident going up, it's probably not going to happen.

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      posted in Oppositelock
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    • RE: COTA Tower

      @ttyymmnn

      I've never had issues with heights, but one time at the Grand Canyon, near one of the huge sheer drops, I got somewhat close to the edge and started to peer over, and definitely got the feeling it was going to suck me in.

      Definitely a Yikes! moment.

      posted in Oppositelock
      davesaddiction
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    • RE: CR's video proving that Autopilot will work with no one in the seat.

      @facw

      I agree that the driver who defeats the safety system is to blame.

      But Tesla is not completely without blame in some of these accidents/deaths. Their safety systems pale in comparison to other manufacturers, probably partially because of their desire to be seen as the leader in near-autonomous driving. Their recklessness on this front has led to tragedy.

      posted in Oppositelock
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      davesaddiction
    • RE: COTA Tower

      @ttyymmnn

      Safety in numbers. 😁

      So, you'd pass on this?

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      posted in Oppositelock
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      davesaddiction
    • RE: CR's video proving that Autopilot will work with no one in the seat.

      @facw said in CR's video proving that Autopilot will work with no one in the seat.:

      And you can put a brick on the accelerator of a regular car...

      Yes, of course. But it could be argued that Tesla is being negligent for making these systems as easily defeatable as they are. It's one thing if a Tesla driver kills themself by being stupid and reckless; it's another thing entirely if a Tesla driver kills another family because they are literally asleep at the wheel on the interstate because their car makes it so easy for them (and the company's marketing would have them believe there's probably actually little danger in such an action, regardless of what the owner's manual says).

      posted in Oppositelock
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    • RE: COTA Tower

      @ttyymmnn

      Nice!! Were you up there all by yourself? So cool.

      posted in Oppositelock
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      davesaddiction
    • RE: CR's video proving that Autopilot will work with no one in the seat.

      @musashi66

      As stated in other threads, "SuperCruise", or something like it, is the appropriate term.

      Elon should also be banned from ever using the term "Full Self Driving", and should be deleted from all marketing materials.

      How long have they been pre-selling this capability as a "future option" on their cars? Have any of these buyers been refunded their money?

      "Three years ago [in 2015], Musk claimed that Tesla’s vehicles would be ready and able to completely drive themselves without any human interaction by 2017. Two years ago[in 2016], Musk announced every car made going forward would have the hardware necessary to facilitate this goal. Tesla has spent the years since advertising this impending breakthrough on its website as an easy add-on to the purchase of a new car, something that only required a few thousand dollars and a little bit of patience. Those promises have all since weakened, though. Musk recently [in 2018] admitted that the company will need to upgrade cars already on the road with new hardware — specifically, a new AI chip — in order to endow them with full self-driving capabilities. (Even then, some in the industry believe Tesla’s cars lack a crucial piece of the autonomous puzzle.) Tesla missed Musk’s 2017 estimate for rollout of Full Self-Driving by at least a year [LOL]. And now, Tesla has dimmed the visibility of Full Self-Driving in general, raising questions about the company’s approach to one of its grandest goals."

      Overpromise and underdeliver! It's been working for them so far...

      posted in Oppositelock
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      davesaddiction