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Old 03-02-2009, 05:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
bwilson4web
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Mostly harmless

Hi,

I found this web site by accident and remember seeing a few of the old handles. Since your charter and forum messages seem to have an engineering flavor, I figure to hang out for a while and see if this will be a good match.

For those who may wonder, yes I'm the same bwilson4web you might have seen at:
  • GreenHybrid.com
  • PriusChat.com
  • Yahoo Group "Prius Technical Stuff"
I 'bwilson4web' everywhere. For now, let's see what happens and go from there. But rather than fill out a long list, it might be easier to point at some of my earlier work:
One side bit, I joined GreenHybrid.com in October 2005 and was there when in January 2006 the 'hypermiler' crowd ran off to form CleanMPG. Later, as a moderator, I helped put an end to CleanMPG snipping at GreenHybrid. Understand that I have no problem with automation of efficient driving and think that makes a lot of sense. But I am too old for 'hero worship' and I sure don't approve of driving 'stunts.'

My ride is a hybrid electric and my engineering will be that way. I can appreciate specific systems and subsystem that we may share an interest such as aerodynamic mods, reducing rolling drag, and exhaust heat recovery. These are all good things I'm interested in too. But it needs to be part of solid engineering and reproducible in the standard EPA, Euro, or Japanese tests. I am just not impressed in misleading driving 'stunts' and have no problem with puncturing hokum engineering claims and exposing misleading automotive claims and misrepresentations.

So let's see how things work out. Some of the technical threads are interesting and we'll see if collaboration works out.

Bob Wilson

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