No one seemed to notice that the foot rests moved. In the display, they are in front, but in the one he sits on, they are in the 'rear', so you don't have to remove your pants completely.
Also, why do they not give Butters credit? He figured this out years ago.

Watch the reflection in the rear screen of the car ahead at 0:30 or so, you can see it go up about 6s before it lands.

"These are clutch plates I believe"

No those are ring gears from a rear end.

This is just uninformed supposition, but I could this mean they're going to field a Boxster at Le Mans in the coming years? That seems unthinkable. The 911's are currently disadvantaged because of the big rear diffusors the 2016 GTLM regulations started allowing. All the mid and front engine cars can stick them on there, but I understand the drivetrain is in the way on the 911. It will be interesting to see what happens.

I like the setup. A lot of people would place the jets at the rear, like in a Lear Jet or A10 Warthog, or on the wings like most commerical liners. Where the jets would push the plane. Obviously this airframe was initally designed to be pulled through the air, so having everything up front probably balances thrust and makes the plane mostly react like the prop version. Definitely simplifies the engineering required for the modification.

Commenting here in case you already knew, or have figured out he only erased a poor cloning of the rear wheel. I don't want to look pedantic. I mean, I am, but I don't want to look like it...

It's all about timing. If you pull the lever at the exact right moment, the front axle has passed the junction and the rear axle gets diverted. The trolley will derail.

I am so firmly in driver category #1 that I printed my own T-shirts that have the road sign most people ignore that says "slower traffic keep right" and on the back they say "keep right except to pass".
I used to get upset at my grandmother who would drive 40mph on the freeway to be "safe". I would repeat 'How is it not a wreck if we get rear ended by someone going the speed limit? You know we get hurt MORE being hit unexpectedly from the rear, right?' It never helped.
Thank you Vox, for explaining it well.

I really think they need to add a thick steel plate to the rear of the cab....or at least offer the driver some serious life insurance.

That is one heck of a pole they hit. Sheared through the front axle, tore through about 2/3 the length of the bus and was stopped by the rear axle and yet the sign appears to be still vertical.

I love how it only fits because he ground away under the stairs and lifts the rear end.

*promote

Soooo many wonderful phrases.

Rear Admiral. Yes.

The suspect was hit by the front of the cruiser, which caused him to fall while the cruiser continued sliding along side him. Part or all of the suspect could easily have ended up under that rear left wheel. So yeah, nearly run over seems pretty accurate.

I disagree on nearly all points.

Can't outrun the radio. That's why they have backup. They can't outrun the helicopter in town either, and there's no escape on the freeway if the cops roadblock it.
I guess you didn't notice the one they did hit. No one pulled a gun and attacked the cop, did they?
Could have trapped them all in the underpass if they were on the ball. They should have come in with 4-5 cars at once and blocked it off front and rear, then shot anyone trying to escape.
Really, you assume they're so dumb they would all commit crimes armed (making just dirty riding a violent felony) and have a shootout with the cops (which would instantly make any group riding a SWAT priority from now on). Guaranteed, the first time that happens is the last time more than 3 motorcycles ride together without being stopped and harassed anywhere in the country.
Couple of hundred?!? I only saw around 50. Cops take control of riots that have thousands -tens of thousands of actors all the time. That's no excuse or reason.
They aren't any danger to the police or public if they're wrecked on the road.
Police follow in hopes of catching them in any way, be it trapped, fallen, wrecked, given up, went home, on camera, etc.
Lots that can be done. Since they have multiple camera views of all of them, they can stop them any time they see a bike that looks like one of them on the road and try to put them in prison for wreckless endangerment (a good reason all riders should HATE these people, innocent bikers get harassed for having similar bikes all the time). I do understand that SOME of those bikes are stolen, or unregistered, but most are not and those riders may give up their compatriots.
1%ers only make up 1%.

My point is, if police take this seriously like the attack on the public that it is and aggressively go after them with the cop cars, they will think twice and not operate on YOUR assumptions that the cops won't do a thing....which is why they continue this crap, that assumption. If every single time a group goes 'riding dirty' at least one of them ends up dead or paralyzed, it will end FAST.
You know how much damage that cop car would suffer by running them over....none! ;-)

Watch some 'formula drift'. They're powerful enough that they don't need to use the front brakes to spin the tires, even at speed. It's possible the same thing applies to the bike, that it's just overpowering the rear wheel and not using the brake, but since he doesn't accelerate out of sight, he probably is braking.