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.
Navy Super Hornets Getting the Best Electronic Warfare Suite They'll Ever Have
21 Dec 2023, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet is presently one of the U.S. Navy's main aerial platforms. Deployed in service as a replacement for the legendary Grumman F-14 Tomcat in the late 1990s, it also begins to grow old, not as a general platform, but at ...
NASA Looking To Reinvent the Core of Jet Engines, Moves HyTEC Program Into Phase 2
21 Dec 2023, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a while since we've heard anything relevant happening on the HyTEC front, but the wait seems to have been worth it: NASA's effort to reinvent the core of jet engines got a major boost this week as the program moved into Pha...
NASA Study Shows 17 Planets Outside Our Solar System May Have Habitable Oceans
21 Dec 2023, 07:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Knowing what we know now about our solar system, it would be fair to assume that many of the processes and state of affairs we've observed here with our own instruments and eyes are widespread throughout the Universe. For instance, we'...
Indian Knows Why Some of Its Motorcycle Engines Stall, Issues Recall to Fix Them
20 Dec 2023, 13:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although recalls are common occurrences in the automotive world, they don't happen all that often in the motorcycle world. And it's even rarer to have two major players in this industry involved in simultaneous recalls. We learned earl...
Poisonous Molecule That's Key to Life Was Found on Distant Moon
20 Dec 2023, 13:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the time of writing NASA listed in its inventory of moons in our solar system a total of 290 such celestial bodies. The bulk of them, no less than 146, circle gas giant Saturn, located at a distance of 793 million miles (1.3 billion km) from our...
NASA Doesn't Trust Itself Enough to Let AI Drive a Rover on the Moon
20 Dec 2023, 08:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Cars that are autonomous to some degree are already a reality of our time. With the exception of a single carmaker, however, no one really dares say their cars are fully self-driving, for the simple reason they are not. The difficulty of making ...
U.S. Demos World's First Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet With Rotating Detonation Combustion
20 Dec 2023, 07:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of hypersonics is perhaps just as captivating to some people as say space exploration is to others. After all, it's all about going really, really fast through Earth's atmosphere, many times using technologies we barely knew exi...
Dream Chaser Spaceplane Getting Ready for First Mission, Here Are All the Juicy Bits
19 Dec 2023, 13:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It seems like forever since we first learned of the Dream Chaser spaceplane being put together by private company Sierra Space, but it seems we are now closer than ever to the first launch of the spacecraft as part of an official NASA mission. D...
Wind Gusts Can Prove Too Much for the 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide, Recall Issued
19 Dec 2023, 12:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2023 is the year when America's largest motorcycle maker, Harley-Davidson, is celebrating its 120th anniversary. As such, for the past 11 months or so, we've been treated with incredible Harley goodies, be they in the form of new models o...
Spaceship Flying Strapped to a Balloon Instead of a Rocket Looks Smaller Than Expected IRL
19 Dec 2023, 08:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a long time coming, but it finally seems like our world will be getting its very first and only carbon-neutral spaceship. Ok, it's not exactly a spaceship, as it won't pass over the generally agreed-upon boundary to space, ...
2024 McLaren GTS Is an Almost New Kind of British Supercar, It's Here to Kill the GT
19 Dec 2023, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You may think of the McLaren GTS as either a toned-down second generation of the four-year-old GT, or its beefed-up facelift version. Why the name change, then? In part because the Brits are not your usual carmakers and like to give upgraded cars n...
The Era of Space Lasers Is Coming, And There's No Stopping It
18 Dec 2023, 15:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are many things a mission to space will not succeed without, and one of them is a communication system. For instance, although you'd think there's little anyone here on Earth could do to save a mission gone wrong millions of miles a...
How the Most Powerful BMW R 1300 GS Ever Made Beat a Porshe 911 Up a Volcano Slope
18 Dec 2023, 09:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The end of September 2023 brought with it news of the touring enduro segment heating up with the launch of the most powerful BMW R 1300 GS motorcycle ever made. And the competition fearing what this beast can do was proven right to be afraid by the...
5 Special Edition Ducati Panigale Bikes Celebrate the 2023 Racing Season's Champions
18 Dec 2023, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Italian bike maker Ducati had the best racing season it could hope for. Both the machines it makes and the riders that use them have taken the company to the top of the pack, and in more than one respect. It was not long ago when the final races...
This Happened to a 1971 Chevy K5 Blazer After Thousands of Hours of Spare-No-Expense Work
17 Dec 2023, 00:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like with all other things in life, the end result of a custom vehicle job depends heavily on how much work and money goes into it. And that obviously means that when we're talking about thousands of hours and a no expense spared approach towa...
Harley-Davidson Panhead Infected with "Tinkering Malaria" Gets a Miracle Cure in Germany
16 Dec 2023, 23:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No, don't start searching online for tinkering malaria, as that's not a real thing. It's just a fictitious disease used by the guys over at German custom motorcycle maker Thunderbike to describe the original state of a Harley-Davidso...
The 10 Biggest Motorcycle Engines in 2023 (And What Production Bikes They Power)
16 Dec 2023, 06:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One way of looking at how vehicles are made today is to consider cars habitats on wheels, while motorcycles are, of course, nothing more than engines on wheels. And it's those engines, the biggest of them currently available, that we're h...
Someone Spilled Cafe Au Lait All Over This 1950 Chevrolet 3100, And It Looks Amazing
16 Dec 2023, 00:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of custom builders, the name Streamline Custom Designs speaks volumes. Based in Utah, the crew is in the business of taking all the luxuries of the modern world and packaging them in the body of a classic car. That's how the crew ...
Harley-Davidson Viking Punch Has the Body of One Softail and the Face of Another
15 Dec 2023, 23:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Custom motorcycle garages, especially the ones in the business of handling Harley-Davidson machines, have gotten us used to extreme interpretations of stock two-wheelers. As a general rule, many of these projects are modified by swapping some of th...
Brown Dwarf Star Is So Small It Could Be a Planet, Plus a Molecule That Shouldn't Be There
15 Dec 2023, 13:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's impossible to tell for sure how many stars there are in the Universe for the simplest reason that it's impossible to see them all, let alone count them. Some estimates, based on, well, more or less guessing, put the number at 200 bil...