Thursday, December 15, 2011

Tech Article

Junior: The Self Driving Volkswagen Passat
Volkswagen is trying to come up with self driving car technology. Their latest step in creating one is Junior. It uses laser scanners and radar to find the best/quickest way to get through its assigned route. It can do very high speeds on the autobahn(which is Germanies no speed limit highway) Navigate through tight traffic or even race at high speeds across gravel/snow/tarmac. 

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Tech Article 11/17

2012 Bugatti Veyron Super Sports
The 2012 Veyron is another technological and engineering masterpiece created by Bugatti. It beat its own land speed record for a street legal car again! For about 3 years in a row Bugatti has been increasing the speed its car is going. This year it went 268 miles per hour! It has 1250 break horsepower that it used to get to 0-60 in about 2.5 seconds. Now to compare to normal cars t has about 12.5 times more horsepower than a normal car. It also does 0-60 about 10 seconds faster than a normal car. It has an 8 liter w16 engine. While a regular car only has about 4 cylinders instead of 16. And is only about 1.2 liters. Once again an engineering masterpiece by Bugatti.


Monday, November 14, 2011

Reflection

I thought the first half of this class was pretty cool. I learned a lot a new things that i can do with google docs. Like creating surveys or presentation. I also learned about the website blogger. I also learned a lot of cool stuff with the tech articles.

Weekend

I sat at home doing nothing. But i skated for about half an hour on wednesday.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Tech Article 10/28

Chevrolet Sonic-Z
The Sonic-Z is a new hothatchback designed by Chevrolet. The Special thing about it is that its an electric car designed to be sporty and efficient. Which is a very hard combination to make work properly. It has an electric motor that it possible of making 170 mile trips which is a massive for an electric car. Let alone an electric sports car. It has about 145 break horsepower, sport suspension, and nice wide tires so that it has a great amount of acceleration and grip.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Tech Article

Dan Wheldon's Death causes many Changes in IndyCar
The den of racing driver Dan Wheldon on Sunday is going to cause many changes in the IndyCar racing series.As well as cars on the road of the companies who race in indycar. The cars are going to change the way they carry their fuel as the cars are supposed to not explode but the cars exploded anyway. Some real car companies carry fuel in the same way and will be changing it as well. The drivers are also going to sit lower in the cars to prevent their head being hit. As Dan Wheldon died of multiple skull fracture's.

Awesome Survey

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dG5JVXpOM195dVp4a1ZuRDBSZHM2YWc6MQ#gid=0

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

News article 10/6

The 2012 Porsche 911

        Porsche is unveiling it new generation of its flagship 911. The Porsche 911 is a very unique sports car. It has a rear engine layout. Where as most sports cars have the engine in the front. It includes many new innovations to sports car technology. It has a very good design in aircooling its rear engine. It also has the first 7 speed manual gearbox. It does 0-60 mph in less than 4 seconds. Which is a result of its 400 Break Horsepower. 

Monday, October 3, 2011

Over the weekend

My Weekend was very boring. All i did was get sick and sit at home. I played games because i was so bored. Then i didnt do anything for the rest of the weekend. My weekend wasnt eventful.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Tech article 9/30

Article                                      V6 Turbo Engines To be reinstated in Formula 1
In 2014 the Formula 1 World Championship will be returning to the V6 turbo engines that have not been used for almost 20 years. This change was done in the pursuit of fuel efficiency and power as well. The last time this V6 turbo was used it was able to develop about 1,550 Break Horsepower(about as much as 16 Honda Civics) while weighing only about 1,100 Pounds. That is an absolutely insane power to weight combination.  This will provide a lot more excitement to the sport.




Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Fall

My favorite part about fall is the weather. I like having seventy degree weather and light winds instead of intense heat of blistering cold. I also like Thanksgiving and Halloween for the food.


Tech article 9/23

Article

KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System)

KERS is a system of batteries and gears that formula 1 cars use to provide extra power to the engine. It uses the friction and heat caused by braking to provide an extra 80 Break Horsepower to the engine. It can spin up to about 80,000 RPM. This is great because it can make cars use a little bit less fuel.


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Yo what's up

I like skating and racing. I have two brothers. And I go to WRHS.
To Mr. Porfido- My name isnt matt