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.
Dog-Like DribbleBot Is the Lionel Messi of Soccer-Playing Robots
4 Apr 2023, 12:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Believe me when I tell you I had no idea “programming robots to play soccer has been an active research area for some time.” And I bet you didn’t know either. Yet here it is, the first result of that research: the DribbleBot. ...
Virgin Orbit Calls It Quits, First Major Space Company to File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
4 Apr 2023, 10:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For more than a decade, space exploration has been the new El Dorado for rich folk in need of making even more money. One after the other, scores of startups popped into existence, feeding on humanity’s need to expand its borders beyond the c...
Video From Mars Shows Perseverance Rover Drilling the First Hole in a New Area
4 Apr 2023, 10:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American space agency knew ever since it started work on the Perseverance that the Mars rover would be the most capable machine of its kind ever sent by humans up there. And in the two years it has been on location in the Jezero crater, the six...
Harley-Davidson Old Copper Boy Re-Take Looks Deliciously Like a Bobber Barn Find
4 Apr 2023, 08:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over the past weekend, our journey through the world of custom Harley-Davidsons made in Switzerland brought us face-to-face with something called the Old Copper Boy. It is a Softail Slim S converted into something much more appealing by a crew call...
Mars Glider Is an Arrowhead Spacecraft We Should Have Shot at the Red Planet Decades Ago
3 Apr 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The 1960s were incredible years. With the threat of nuclear annihilation a constant presence in their everyday lives, humans still managed to create incredible things and bring daring ideas to life, literally opening up the heavens for our species....
It’s Official, NASA’s Next Target for Human Crews Is Mars
3 Apr 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’ll soon be 62 years since humans left the confines of their planet and headed out into space. On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin performed a full orbit of Earth inside a spacecraft called Sputnik and opened the doors to countless othe...
This Hybrid Electric Airplane Will Use First-of-Its-Kind Battery, Targets 500-Mile Range
3 Apr 2023, 10:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I must admit I’ve gotten used to the thought of electric cars being a constant presence in our lives pretty fast. I’m not an owner of one yet, but since I live over in Europe, I’ll soon have to make the switch, and I’ll prob...
Harley-Davidson Black Dog Is a Bad Omen on Wheels, Someone Is Not Afraid to Ride It
3 Apr 2023, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If there is one thing humans have always been great at, that’s making up things and giving these figments of their imagination incredible powers. Like say the stories of a black dog said to roam British realms as some sort of harbinger of dea...
H2 Clipper Airship Could Make Airborne Hydrogen Great Again
2 Apr 2023, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you look up at the sky these days, all you’ll see are airplanes, helicopters and drones. Depending on a variety of factors, including location and state of mind, you might also see the Goodyear blimp flying about, or some alien spacecraft....
Harley-Davidson Viking Is a Violent-Looking Ride Ragnar Lothbrok Would Have Loved
2 Apr 2023, 09:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite its coldness, Scandinavia is an enchanting place. Comprising the present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden, this northern portion of Europe is home to wonderful scenery, beautiful cities, and peaceful people. But a few hundred years ago, that ...
New Solar Sail Could Spill Some of the Sun’s Secret Right Into Our Laps
1 Apr 2023, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a number of years now NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has been the driving force behind some of space exploration’s craziest, most spectacular, and daring ideas born in the minds of those with an interest in this ...
Harley-Davidson Old Copper Boy Has the Rear of a Youngster and the Face of an Oldtimer
1 Apr 2023, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not long ago, in a bid to conquer the pre-owned motorcycle segment, American bike maker Harley-Davidson launched a factory-backed marketplace where everyone can find the Harley of their dreams at an affordable price, but with some miles on the cloc...
Jeep Grand Wagoneer With a RedTail Skyloft on Its Roof Is How They Overland in Utah
31 Mar 2023, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Tomorrow, April 1, this year’s Easter Jeep Safari kicks off in Moab, Utah. The event spans for nine days, and as usual, it will be a celebration of everything Jeep, from privately-owned off-roaders to concepts brought on-site by the carmaker ...
1978 Jeep Cherokee Gets Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Powertrains Swap, Still Looks Timeless
31 Mar 2023, 09:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whenever Jeep releases a bunch of new concepts for the Easter Jeep Safari events it joins each year, we generally don’t expect to be blown away by them. Although incredible machines in themselves, they are most often than not mild visual and ...
This Is the HEMI V8-Powered Jeep Scrambler the World Never Got in Production Form. Sort Of
31 Mar 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Americans have always been suckers for big displacement V8 engines. So much so, in fact, that you can barely find an American-made vehicle that didn’t offer at one point in its life such a thing. Except, perhaps, the Jeep Scrambler. Also k...
Jeep Wrangler Magneto 3.0 Is an Exciting Wrangler Concept We’ve Seen Before, Only Better
31 Mar 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It almost never happens for car concepts to get recycled and presented as new versions following their initial introduction. Yet one of the seven Jeep concepts the American carmaker has cooked up for the 57th annual Easter Jeep Safari did exactly t...
This 1969 Chevrolet Yenko COPO Camaro Is a Fully Loaded and Rare Muscle Beauty
30 Mar 2023, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In most places on this Earth, it doesn’t happen all that often for car dealerships to be involved or have a say in car production. Yet in America, the land of opportunities, some of them not only did that, but managed to birth machines so inc...
Harley-Davidson Kilimanjaro Is Delicious Chocolate on Two Wheels
30 Mar 2023, 11:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over the years we’ve seen custom motorcycle projects getting inspiration for their names from all over the place. They’ve been named after their owners, both random or fitting words were used, and in some cases, simple numbers were enou...
Fresh Blueprint of Future Moon Space Station Is the Simplest and Most Detailed Yet
30 Mar 2023, 09:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the time of writing there are two space stations in orbit around Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) and Chinese Tiangong (TSS). Several others are being planned by private companies, but they all pale in comparison with something calle...
NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 Is Officially the World’s Heaviest Self-Powered Vehicle
30 Mar 2023, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The high-speed journeys our space rockets take to wherever they’re going always begin with a very slow crawl from the place where they are assembled to the launch pad. For NASA rockets, the last trip they take on this Earth is done with the h...