Daniel Patrascu
18,932 ARTICLES
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.
Voyager Spaceships Are Getting Ready to Spend More Than Half a Century in Space
23 Oct 2023, 12:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You may be fooled into believing that the large number of spacecraft we've sent beyond the borders of our planet makes us a sort of interplanetary civilization. If you really think about it, though, we've only stepped timidly into our imm...
Mission to Asteroid Intentionally Hit by a High-Speed Spacecraft on Track for 2024 Launch
23 Oct 2023, 10:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2021 NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission. Known the world over as the DART, it called for a spaceship to impact a distant asteroid at speeds of 14,000 mph (22,530 kph) and see if it could change its course. There i...
Volcon Stag UTV Now Rolling Off Assembly Lines, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Get It Too
23 Oct 2023, 09:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A couple of weeks ago a startup playing in the segment of electric powersport vehicles called Volcon announced a research deal with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. The focus of the deal was the creation of dual-use vehicles ...
1943 White M2 Half-Track Looks Like the Perfect $72,000 Buy for the World We Live In
23 Oct 2023, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world we occupy is in the most dreadful place it's been in years. Two major wars are ravaging two historic hotspots on the planet, protests are taking place in the world's major cities on various topics, and on top of that global warm...
Is There Any Use for ChatGPT in a Vehicle? Another Carmaker Seems to Think So
23 Oct 2023, 06:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Less than a year ago humans went nuts over the launch of a chatbot the likes of which the world had never seen before. Everybody was talking about ChatGPT, everybody was testing it, some feared it, but very few actually ignored it. Then, as its lim...
Alaska-Bred 1975 Ford F-250 Is So Loaded Not Even the Autobots Seem Capable to Stop It
21 Oct 2023, 23:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Wherever you are in this world, and no matter what kind of cars you're into, I'm pretty sure you won't be capable of looking away from this 1975 Ford F-250 without at least gasping in disbelief. And that's because the truck is s...
Harley-Davidson Bad Habits Is Probably Not Something Ed Sheeran Would Sing About
21 Oct 2023, 22:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bad Habits is a song so powerful it even has its own Wikipedia page. It also has three big awards to its name (including a Best Song at the MTV Music Awards in 2021), countless nominations, and was streamed over 450 million times on Spotify. And no...
Suzuki Hayabusa History: Past, Present and Future (1999 - 2023)
21 Oct 2023, 08:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Almost never in the history of man did a motorcycle so ugly manage to achieve so much as the Suzuki Hayabusa. Born with the single purpose of becoming the fastest two-wheeler on the planet, it rapidly did that, and then moved to even greater things...
This Is Probably the Most Beautiful 1972 Chevrolet Camaro in the World
20 Oct 2023, 23:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Beauty is subjective. What I find joyfully appealing you could find painfully repulsive. But even such distinct tastes most likely agree this 1972 Chevrolet Camaro is one beautiful beast. The most beautiful in the world at this point in time, if yo...
Harley-Davidson Low Rider S Edition Is the Stunning-Rear Naked You Weren't Expecting
20 Oct 2023, 22:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A quick look at the Harley-Davidson Low Rider would make it immediately clear this is anything but a naked bike. Born over in Milwaukee back in 1977 as part of the Dyna family, the model established itself over the years as a cruiser you can count ...
We Know of Jupiter for 413 Years, But We Never Knew It Had This Fast-Moving Jet Stream
20 Oct 2023, 12:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Our species likes to think that, at least when it comes to the things that really matter, we pretty much know all there is to know about the planets in our solar system. But a recently published discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ma...
RAMFIRE Is a Name So Cool It Can Only Be About New-Aluminum Space Rocket Nozzles
20 Oct 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sending rockets to the Moon, Mars, and beyond with humans on board boils down to essentially one thing: being capable of sending with them enough supplies to ensure survival. And that can only be done if we can cut the weight of the rocket itself d...
New Ammonia Reactor Helps Fuel Car-Scale Internal Combustion Engine
20 Oct 2023, 10:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The society we've built is one that can never function without fuel. Somehow, the humans of long ago found out that fossil fuels are the most effective for their immediate purposes, and settled on that. In doing so, they kind of doomed our pla...
Virgin Galactic Preps Fifth Private Spaceflight, Science Influencer on Board
20 Oct 2023, 09:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Of all the space startups that promised over the past few years a flood of rocket flights with civilians onboard, only one has managed to actually start operations. Virgin Galactic did that earlier this year, and the company is already approaching ...
Ducati Multistrada V4 RS Revealed as a Superbike and Adventure Half-Breed
20 Oct 2023, 07:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A bit earlier than it's gotten us used to, Italian bike maker Ducati reached that time of the year when it lets loose whatever it has planned for the coming months. The company started the new product rollout back in September with the Multist...
Next Time You See a Business Jet Overhead, It Might Be the U.S. Army
19 Oct 2023, 13:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In just a few short decades the world has changed drastically. And by that I don't only mean geopolitically, but also in terms of technologies used for daily activities. And in the field of the military, that poses significant challenges. I...
Amazon Now Uses a Huge AI-Powered MRI-Like Machine to Scan Delivery Vans for Faults
19 Oct 2023, 09:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Amazon is a business so large that it's almost impossible to wrap your head around it. Just think about its army of delivery partners: over 280,000 drivers take to the road each day to deliver roughly 20 million packages to people all over the...
Harley-Davidson Racing Team Gearing Up for Largest King of the Baggers Series Ever
19 Oct 2023, 08:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the company being of crucial importance for the motorcycle world as a whole, Harley-Davidson is not all that visible with its own, factory-backed teams in the world's various two-wheeler racing series. Ever since the King of the Bagger...
GM to Launch First-Ever Driverless Ride-Hail Service in Japan as It Dreams of Zero Crashes
19 Oct 2023, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Developments on this front seem to have settled down a bit over the past few years, but autonomous taxi services for crowded cities are advancing in the shadows to eventually become part of our lives. And that may happen as soon as 2026. That�...
Fuel Cell Jet Engines Feeding on SAF Are Now Actively Being Pursued
18 Oct 2023, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The race to completely transform the aviation industry from one of the world's largest polluters into a more environment-friendly affair is constantly heating up, and it also takes on new, rather strange (or at least unexpected) forms. The lat...