Comments on: Dale Earnhardt Jr Hypermiles to Victory in NASCAR Racing

By: peter

peter — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:21:40 +0000

Subject: using an Earnhardt Jr. pic.

Since this is a news story, using a pic of Dale Earnhardt Jr pic (or his car) falls under the Fair Use.

Fair use covers educational and news reporting purpose.

My impression is Ecomodder is a news/education/news aggragator site. Not some entity that would ‘jack’ earnhardt’s pic and knock out 1,000s of coffee mugs to be sold at $20.00.

P.S. I did ‘get’ what the blog is about: less fuel, more work (distance).

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By: Kakman

Kakman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:26 +0000

I am curious….. I was under the impression that starting an engine takes about as much gas as allowing it to idle for about three minutes. I can only imagine that in average conditions, P & G would be applying power every minute or less, except on long downhill runs. It would also seem that a manual transmission would be the only way to make this work well.

By: Pro_Rally

Pro_Rally — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:10:30 +0000

Who cares about the darn picture of the car!

Did anyone, who complained of the image, actually GET the story?

I say, put a pic of an F1 race in Monaco or the World Rally Championship in Australia.

It’s the message, people — not the image.

By: Benjamin Jones

Benjamin Jones — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:59:00 +0000

To those concerned about P&G in regards to steering and power assist brakes, you’ve made a good point. I forgot to mention it because #1 my personal car doesn’t have power steering so I never notice the difference and #2 I spend so much time mentioning it that in this VERY BRIEF overview, I didn’t think of it.

People doing P&G are not stupid, we know how our cars work, and we don’t advise others to do it before making sure they know also. This post was not an advertisement for P&G, but was just meant to explain how it was employed in racing to to describe what it was for those who didn’t know.

So, Jack, please don’t overreact, and try to refrain from words like “functionality,” which can be defined as “the quality of being of or related to a function.” Function is a much nicer word for it.

By: hmmmm

hmmmm — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:14:36 +0000

lol..it’s still wrong. its cool man, i know you are trying and are clearly not a nascar fan but maybe just a little research into the CURRENT Dale Jr info would reveal you are looking for 88 not 8. Hope that helps.

By: Timothy342

Timothy342 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:35:56 +0000

The ABS system or the airbags will not work either by the way. So once you do go off the road as described above the situation only gets worse.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:31:40 +0000

And I completely forgot to add, what about the steering? Switch the engine off and you lose power steering.

In a car built with power steering, turning it off means you have to apply 5x the force on the wheel to change direction.

Imagine having to dodge something on the road quickly, not only do your brakes not work, but neither can you steer (at all) because of the weight of the unassisted housing.

In addition to all this with the engine off the steering lock will activate once you turn the wheel beyond a certain angle left or right. So if by some chance you avoided what was on the road your wheel has now locked and you are going off the road.

It amazes me that no one who talks about this pulse & glide knows about these base functionalities in automobiles.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:24:33 +0000

I have no idea how this coasting is supposed to work.

In a car the brake cylinders are powered by the engine. If you shut the engine off you have the pressure in the system (one or two presses on the brake) after this the brakes on the car will not work.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:10:20 +0000

Still not his car.

By: lardvark

lardvark — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:05:13 +0000

Umm… Dale’s number is 88 now, not 8. He quit driving for DEI at the end of last year. He now drives for Hendrick Motorsports and is sponsored by Amp and the National Guard.

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:50:09 +0000

Still the wrong car. Budweiser was last year.
http://www.dalejr.com/#myride

By: tashare

tashare — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:43:00 +0000

Too all you you saying why would you put a picture of another driver up when you are talking about Dale Jr. shows how very little all of you know about NASCAR. That is Dale Jr.’s car. It is NOT his current car. He drove the number 8 car last year.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:38:31 +0000

power steering and braking may not work with the engine off… best of luck

By: Benjamin Jones

Benjamin Jones — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:22:53 +0000

Anon: The advise isn’t meant to scare you, it’s meant to keep you from being inconvenient to others. Just like driving 35 MPH on the highway isn’t good, P&G in traffic isn’t good.

To everyone commenting on the image: I did use the flickr CC search, but wasn’t looking for the right thing, I was kinda sleepy when I put the picture up, no one is perfect, :p

Changing it now.

By: james

james — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:21:09 +0000

I’ve done this down long grades when i’m running very low, just remember to keep the key in the ON position else deal with steering wheel locking on you. It should also be said that in most cases you lose power everywhere, including steering and brakes.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:15:51 +0000

Doing an advanced search on Flickr requesting results with a specific Creative Commons License allowing you to use the image is easy enough and such images are rather abundant.

See: Flickr.com > Search > Advanced Search > Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content

I then restricted the results to any date taken after February 2008 as to get Juniors new car/sponsor/number.

By: uh, yeah..

uh, yeah.. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:09:58 +0000

so what, instead you put up a picture you don’t own of someone else’s car?

By: regeya

regeya — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:07:34 +0000

Yeah, lots of luck with that. The picture of the Petty car may or may not be a violation of NASCAR rules, STP’s copyright, blah blah blah and it’s getting to where you can just barely mention NASCAR without cutting a check. So…my guess is that a generic track photo is all that will be allowed in the future.