Daniel Patrascu
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Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
5 Bikes for Passengers to Consider for the 2024 Touring Season
11 May 2024, 21:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's no secret to anyone that riding a motorcycle requires a significantly different skill set than what one needs to drive a car. It's an activity that also offers entirely different experiences for the ones in control of the two-wheeled...
Most Daring SpaceX Civilian Mission Will Have Four People Step Out Into the Void at Once
10 May 2024, 22:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the relatively short period of time it has been on the market, Elon Musk's SpaceX has completely revolutionized space exploration. Building on older but never-accomplished dreams of reusability, the company not only managed to reignite the ...
Archimedes 3D Printed Engine Will Send the Neutron Rocket Into Space at Least 20 Times
10 May 2024, 13:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since SpaceX made reusability the most desirable trait of a spacefaring operation, all the companies working in this industry have shifted their attention toward making hardware that can fly to space more than once. And that includes a crew ca...
U.S. to Deploy Thousands of Autonomous Anti-Armor Suicide Drones Against Potential Enemies
10 May 2024, 11:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having seen what devastating effects the clever use of drones can have on enemy plans over in Ukraine, the U.S. military is now convinced this is the way to go should things go south and require American interference abroad, or some defense at home...
Speed Record Holder 1950 Ford Flathead Is All Engine and Mean, Selling Ready to Race
10 May 2024, 08:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not uncommon for cars that are in one way or another important for the automotive industry to pop up on the auction block from time to time. Whether they marked the beginning of an important chapter in the industry, were owned or raced by...
Virgin One Step Closer to Rolling the World's First Mass Production Line for Spaceships
9 May 2024, 12:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Spaceships are perhaps the most impressive pieces of machinery made by our species. Designed to go into outer space, where no living thing we know of can exist unprotected, spaceships are also the vehicles that will take our kind to the star, expan...
Bell Turns a 429 Helicopter Into a Testbed for Autonomous Flight Technologies
9 May 2024, 11:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Testing autonomous flight technologies is a tricky business. Many aviation companies, be they startups or established players, create entirely new aircraft for this purpose alone, and that can prove very costly. Few, however, are using existing pla...
KTM’s First Road-Legal Sport Bike in 15 Years Will Be Called 990 RC R, Here’s What We Know
9 May 2024, 10:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sport bikes are a special breed of two-wheelers. Designed to be ridden hard and fast, they require quite a lot of experience pretty much in all aspects of their existence, from the way they are made to the way they are ridden. That’s why we o...
Husqvarna Motocross Bikes Get a Tad Meaner for the 2025 Model Year
9 May 2024, 07:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're almost halfway through the year and generally speaking motorcycle makers are pretty much done with upgrading their portfolio for the 2025 model year. There are exceptions, companies that are a tad slower in rolling out new models, and Sw...
Electric Bike Lana Del Rey Rode at Coachella Gets a Baby Brother
8 May 2024, 16:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The electric motorcycle market is so dynamic that we keep wondering what the players here will think up next. Fueled by the desire to succeed, the many startups in this business keep dreaming new ways of stealing the spotlight. Like, say, launching...
Mercedes-Benz SL W113 Needs Half a Million Dollars to Look This Great and Be Electric
8 May 2024, 15:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The year 1963 marked the arrival into this world of a two-seat roadster that would go on to become one of the most coveted cars of our time. A Mercedes-Benz by trade, the SL W113 was as luxurious as it could be back then, but it will forever be rem...
Most Powerful Production Porsche Is So Insane It Needs to Pace Formula E Cars to Cool Off
8 May 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Porsche cars have never been for the weak of heart. Their impressive internal combustion engines have always been the epitome of vehicle engineering, a perfect blend between road capabilities and track performance. And those are traits the German c...
USAF Builds From Scratch and Flies Autonomous Drone in 24 Hours, Must Be Some Record
7 May 2024, 10:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It may not be pretty, big, or menacing, as many of the drones the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is presently using are, but this little contraption here has the honor of being (perhaps) the world's fastest drone when it comes to the time it needs to g...
1964 Chevy Malibu SS Is a Hunk of Cold Metal More Expensive Than a Mercedes-Maybach EQS
7 May 2024, 10:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you really want to get noticed in your neighborhood and money is not an issue, then you can definitely go for a brand-new Mercedes-Maybach EQS. Imposing and screaming luxury through all its seams, the $179,900 German electric SUV is at the top o...
Boeing Working on Refueling Drones Fighter Pilots Can Command From the Cockpit
7 May 2024, 08:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It is obvious to anyone looking that drones of all shapes and sizes are rapidly taking over our world. From devices meant to shoot insane videos, these things have grown in a very short period of time into pieces of hardware able to do pretty much ...
Boeing Starliner Fails to Launch (Again), This Time Don't Blame Boeing
7 May 2024, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And here goes another failed attempt at launching the SpaceX Crew Dragon-rivaling Starliner spacecraft. For what it's worth, though, this time it was not something Boeing did (or didn't do), but a fault with the spacecraft's launch r...
DARPA Completes Testing of Underwater Drone That'll Give Sharks Nightmares
6 May 2024, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of April the world got news of the first example of a brand-new breed of uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUV) being ready. The company that broke the news was Northrop Grumman, and it appears these guys only let us know about the dro...
1948 Chevrolet 5700 Ate Five Other Trucks to Become This Monster Custom COE
6 May 2024, 11:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Cab-over-engine (COE) trucks are a special breed of monsters. A fairly common design over in Europe and elsewhere, where they serve transportation and logistic needs on a daily basis, these things can be seen over in the U.S. performing mostly tras...
BMW Kills the Clutch Lever on Motorcycles, New Tech Still Allows for Manual Shifting
6 May 2024, 10:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Motorcycle riding is a relatively easy thing to do, once you get the hang of it. Even the two most challenging things for newbies, keeping one's balance and gear shifting, tend to fade into the background once some experience is gained, and, l...
This Is the SpaceX EVA Suit Civilians Will Test in Daring Spacewalk 430 Miles Above Earth
6 May 2024, 08:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space tourism is a relatively new concept that is quickly catching on. Taking advantage of the advancements made in recent years when it comes to rocket and spacecraft design, several companies are presently offering trips to space in exchange for ...