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.
Lockheed Martin to Make $17 Billion-Worth of New Ballistic Missile Interceptors
16 Apr 2024, 15:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The term Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) has been floating around in military circles and beyond for almost half a decade now. It's a term born in the minds of the people from the Missile Defense Agency as a means to designate the "most...
1957 Chevrolet Cameo Is an Open-Checkbook Piece of Rolling Sunset
16 Apr 2024, 14:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Shortly after Chevrolet stopped making the Advance Design series of pickup trucks that were the backbone of its workhorse fleet in the late 1940s, the American carmaker introduced the Task Force series. Just like its predecessor, the new family had...
ESA Begins Tests on the Space Camper Van That Will Be Placed in Orbit Around the Moon
16 Apr 2024, 13:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What seemed more or less like a distant dream a few years ago has now entered the realm of our reality: humans really are about to build a crew-capable space station around the Moon, the first ever such structure deployed in orbit around a celestia...
May the 4th Is With LEGO, Upgraded TIE Interceptor Is Here 24 Years After Launch
16 Apr 2024, 12:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm not sure how many of you remember this, but back in 1999, at the International Toy Fair in New York, a Danish toy company named LEGO announced its first official partnership with Lucasfilm. The deal was aimed at giving Star Wars fans acces...
Delightful Red 1952 Chevrolet 3100 Is the Reason Why Custom Trucks of Old Will Never Die
15 Apr 2024, 10:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The automotive industry is a very dynamic one, with shifts in design and technology so close together and at times so radical a person from the not-so-distant past would have trouble understanding where things are heading now. Yet there are some th...
You'll Soon Be Able to Lease and Finance Your Own Blended-Wing-Body Cargo Drone
15 Apr 2024, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You're probably a bit tired of hearing about revolutionary aircraft designs being in the works, and also a bit disappointed that many of these projects usually fail, just like the startups behind them, long before they can actually take off. B...
Is Toyota Going to the Moon? Japan-Made Pressurized Rover to Fly on Artemis Missions
15 Apr 2024, 08:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Earlier in April, NASA decided on the final three groups of companies that will be competing for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) contract. What that means is that soon enough humanity will have once more, a vehicle specifically meant to travel on t...
Saturn MLV Would Have Been the Mother of All Space Rockets, Here It Goes Like It Never Did
15 Apr 2024, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Before the Space Launch System rocket of the Artemis program and SpaceX's Starship got here, the Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo Moon exploration program was humanity's largest and most powerful rocket. And even if it no longer is, it ...
Race-Prepped Harley-Davidson Road Glide Sets Kings of the Baggers Track Record
15 Apr 2024, 06:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This past weekend brought yet another exciting race in the King of the Baggers series, with a doubleheader taking place at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. For all intents and purposes, it would have been an exciting race like all the othe...
Donkervoort F22 Art Car Is Named a Like Fighter Jet But Looks Like a Painting
14 Apr 2024, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Fighter jet pilots tend from time to time to give their work vehicles a visual makeover meant to frighten the enemy or at least send a message of some sort. They call this nose art, and it has been around more or less ever since humans became capab...
Cars Meant for Other Planets (And The Companies That Make Them)
13 Apr 2024, 20:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the not-so-distant future the carmakers of Earth will have a choice to make: keep doing what they've always been doing (which is manufacture cars for the people of Earth), or expand their offering to include cars, SUVs, and trucks meant to ...
1971 Chevrolet C20 Was Recently Turned Into a C10 and It's Packing LS3 Hardware
13 Apr 2024, 10:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of custom pickup trucks of old is about to get increasingly exciting later this week as a major specialized auction will open its doors in Palm Beach. A wealth of such vehicles will go under the hammer, and we'll be selecting the bes...
NASA's New Solar Sail Spacecraft Will Shine So Bright We'll See It From Earth
13 Apr 2024, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Depending on the mission they've been created to fulfill spacecraft can be powered by a variety of technologies. Presently, the most widespread is the one that uses propellant and rocket engines. But a new kind of propulsion, ideal to power sm...
Fortnite Now Has an Official Moon Mission, No Battle Royale But Still Insanely Fun
12 Apr 2024, 12:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With seven years behind it already, Fortnite has surpassed its condition of being a free-to-play battle royale game and has turned into something of a global phenomenon. Around 230 million players logged in in the first months of 2024, and that...
Space-Based Solar Farms Getting Real After Succesful Test of Wireless Power Transmission
12 Apr 2024, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The harvesting of solar power is one of the most effective ways to satisfy our energy needs. It's (relatively) cheap and easy to generate, making it an ideal weapon in our fight to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. But solar power has one...
Humans Are Sending Their First AI in Space, You (Probably) Have Nothing to Worry About
12 Apr 2024, 06:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Artificial intelligence with various degrees of smarts are pretty much in everything these days. From text generators to the systems that power the cameras in your phone, AIs are slowly becoming humanity's most trusted sidekicks. To our knowle...
This Space Capsule Will Sent Into the Stratosphere With 9 on Board, Strapped to a Balloon
12 Apr 2024, 05:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The new promised land of economic boom that is the commercial space industry manifests itself in many ways. Most of the companies operating in this business are going for rocket-launched (or rocket-powered) spaceships that can take civilians to the...
SpaceX Starlink Provides Such Cool Internet It Will Soon Power a Space Station
11 Apr 2024, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Say what you will about the man, but the companies Elon Musk is heading have revolutionized their fields several times over. They've accelerated the adoption of electric cars, they have made reusable space rockets a reality of our time, and co...
Harley-Davidson Launches Dainese-Powered Airbag Smart Vest for Riders
11 Apr 2024, 10:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Motorcycle riding has always been a tad more dangerous than driving. In a car, the amount of available space allowed over the years for the creation of impact protection systems like seatbelts and airbags, but none of them can easily be included on...
Polaris Side-by-Side Made Specifically for Texas Is More Expensive Than a New Camaro
11 Apr 2024, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Statistics show that the side-by-side industry is worth a lot of money, especially in the U.S. The numbers provided by Market Trends & Insights Mastery, say that on a global level no less than $14 billion worth of such vehicles have been sold i...