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.
Some AIs Engage in Dumb Chit-Chats, This One Maps Icebergs 10,000 Times Faster Than Humans
18 Nov 2023, 00:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, artificial intelligence systems are already part of our lives. The ones we average Joes interact with on a daily basis are rather simple things, coming as either personal assistants (Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant) or chatbots (ChatG...
Harley-Davidson Breakbox 2 Has Wheels So Extreme They Might Hypnotize You as They Spin
17 Nov 2023, 23:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Breakout motorcycle is one of the most custom shop-friendly products in the Harley-Davidson portfolio. Sure, one could argue that all Harleys ever made are like that, but you only have to look at how many such projects are based on the Breakout...
Spacecraft Shoots Laser Beam at Earth, NASA Catches It in California
17 Nov 2023, 13:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little more than a month ago, the Psyche spacecraft took off, heading for a namesake "unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter." It's not there yet (and it won't be until 2028), but that doesn't mea...
Video Game Has Become So Important It Has the Mercedes-Benz EQS as a Trophy Carrier
17 Nov 2023, 12:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / League of Legends (LoL): officially a free online battle arena "with over 140 champions to make epic plays with" in teams of five taking each other on imagined maps. Also officially, a game with 150 million registered players, with tens o...
LEGO Ideas Orient Express Set Would Get Sheldon Cooper All Worked Up (Updated 05/12/2023)
17 Nov 2023, 11:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / UPDATE, December 2023: The set is now live, and you can get it today for $299.99. It includes over 2,500 pieces, so it'll probably keep you busy for a few days. Original story below. Back in 1883 a Belgian railroad company called Compagnie ...
NASA Reveals Very American Paint Scheme for the X-59 Supersonic Experimental Aircraft
17 Nov 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About a month ago we got a piece of news that kind of disappointed us: the first flight of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Tecnology (QueSST) aircraft was no longer to take place this year, but got pushed to the next one. The X-59 is the demonstrator ...
Before the B-52 Stratofortress Gets New Engines, $870 Million Will Go Into the Old Ones
17 Nov 2023, 07:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / By the middle of the current century, the B-52 Stratofortress will turn 100 years old. That's because the U.S. Air Force (USAF) plans to keep it operating until the mid-2050, effectively making the veteran American bomber the oldest aircraft t...
$46K Langen LightSpeed Is as Aggressive as Only Ice-Powered Motorcycles Can Be
16 Nov 2023, 11:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The name Langen Motorcycles probably doesn't mean a lot of things to many of us, given how the company was only established in 2018 and hasn't been in the news all that much. But given what these guys are doing, they might soon mean a lot...
This Might Very Well Be the Sexiest Firefighting eVTOL Around
16 Nov 2023, 11:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Fighting fires is tricky business, and the people in the business turn to all available means and methods to get the job done. More recently that includes unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that are nimble enough to reach otherwise hard to get to place...
Mercedes-Benz Reveals Its First Open-for-All EV Charging Hub in the U.S.
16 Nov 2023, 08:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Efforts to electrify the vehicles we drive on a daily basis have been going on for more than a decade now. Aside from a flood of EVs being put on the road recently, that also means most carmakers who are important to the industry have in place a so...
This Is What Happens When Tequilla Has a Hand in Designing e-Bikes
15 Nov 2023, 16:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ask anyone you want, and they will all tell you driving or riding any kind of vehicle doesn't mix at all with drinking. Yet this has never stopped carmakers and bike makers from linking their names (and that of their products) with companies a...
This 1970 Plymouth Superbird Is the Rare Kind of Hemi We All Openly Dream of Driving
15 Nov 2023, 13:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are several cars made over the years so special that even their simple names are a delight to roll on the lips. But in my book, nothing can beat the Plymouth Road Runner with a Hemi powerplant and the Superbird moniker attached to it. And ...
Moon Landing Sim Made by 228,572-CPU NASA Computer Looks Misleadingly Crappy
15 Nov 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Apollo 12 was the second Moon landing mission performed by NASA. It unfolded successfully in 1969, placing the feet of Pete Conrad and Alan Bean on the lunar surface. And now the mission can help inform the upcoming landings of the Artemis program....
The Airbus Detumbler Is Here to Stop Satellites From Going Head Over Heels in Orbit
15 Nov 2023, 08:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although it is impossible to say precisely how many satellites are presently in orbit, estimates point to at least 8,900 floating out there in the space around our planet. Of that number, only about half are in working order. The rest, well, you ca...
MQ-4C Triton ISR Drone Is No Longer Used by the U.S. Navy Alone
14 Nov 2023, 12:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A couple of months ago the U.S. Navy gave its seal of approval to the MQ-4C Triton. That would be an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) drone the likes of which the military branch has no other in operation, at least in terms of m...
1956 Chevrolet 3100 Sinister 56 Is a Lot of Custom, Nothing Beats the Built-In Beer Cooler
14 Nov 2023, 11:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are several old car and truck platforms in this world we will never have enough of. And neither does the custom industry, which keeps on rolling incredible builds based on vehicles that have long bit the production dust. The Chevrolet 3100...
We'll Soon Have Quarterhorses Flying Overhead at Hypersonic Speeds
14 Nov 2023, 09:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of hypersonic aircraft is expanding at such a rate that we will probably be faced with a literal flood of such vehicles, most of them military, in our skies. The U.S. alone, for instance, has a number of related programs running, and many...
Virgin Atlantic To Really Put SAF to the Test on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner
14 Nov 2023, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aviation is a kind of human activity that's 120 years old now. Throughout its life, it suffered many transformations, but none of them seem as deep and completely industry-altering as the ones it's going through right now. As airplane ...
MQ-9B SkyGuardian Drone Will Use Smart Weapons Made in the United Arab Emirates
14 Nov 2023, 07:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Generally speaking, the United States military and all of its contractors are very secretive when it comes to the weapons systems they develop, on all levels. Given the nature of the hardware, that's understandable. Yet, for a number of yea...
T-7A Red Hawk Flies 1,400 Miles Across the U.S. to Reach New Testing Grounds
14 Nov 2023, 07:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The moment when America's future military aviators will get to train on a brand-new aircraft is fast approaching. This, after the maker of the new machine, Boeing, completed the next stage of the testing process. The plane in question is ca...