Daniel Patrascu
18,628 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.
10 Exciting Honda Motorcycle Concepts (and What Became of Them)
5 Apr 2024, 21:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are a human living in this world, then there's a big chance that at least once in your life you came across a concept vehicle of some sort. Whether it was a car, a bus, or a spaceship, it most definitely was meant to preview a design cu...
This Is How a Porsche Worth Half a Million Dollars Likes to Call Itself: GBR003
5 Apr 2024, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Porsches are some of the most difficult cars in the world to improve. That's because they're almost always made to be perfect, and there usually is little one can do to better what the German factories birth on a regular basis. But that d...
Suzuki Turns the GSX-R1000R Into an Eco-Friendly Racer Without Touching the Engine
5 Apr 2024, 09:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 1985 Japanese bike maker Suzuki introduced a motorcycle that would go on to change the face of the sportbike category forever. Called GSX-R750, the model evolved in 2001 into something ever more extraordinary, the GSX-R1000. And now it'...
U.S. Test Fires Four of the Deadliest Anti-Ship Weapons Around in a Single Go
5 Apr 2024, 07:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Because of the advancements made in the field of air defense, present-day missiles are finding it increasingly difficult to reach their targets. As a result of that, defense contractors have begun investing heavily in new weapons systems capable of...
The Most Extreme Artemis Moon Rover Has Deformable Wheels and a Size to Impress
5 Apr 2024, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This was a big week for the space exploration industry, as NASA finally announced the finalist companies that will compete to build the crew-rated Moon rover for the later Artemis missions. We discussed two of the entries in our previous coverage, ...
Someone Is Building a Race Car Rover for the Moon, And They Have NASA's Blessing
4 Apr 2024, 10:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Generally speaking, planetary rovers, be they meant for remote use or to carry people, are not pretty things. And they don't have to be, because no one will ever admire their looks, but rather value their skills. And yet the crew-rated Moon ro...
General Motors Could Send the Ultium EV Battery to the Moon on the Lunar Dawn Space Truck
4 Apr 2024, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This week marked the moment when NASA finally made up its mind who to trust with the assembly of the rover the astronauts of the Artemis program will use on the Moon later this decade. The competition is fierce, and the machines chosen for the task...
NASA Cherry-Picks the Companies to Make the Artemis Moon SUV, Big Names Are on the List
4 Apr 2024, 06:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The crew-carrying Artemis missions to the Moon are expected to start next year with the second flight of the program, the one that will not actually land humans on the Moon. The following year, Artemis III will do just that, followed in 2028 by Art...
The Most Powerful Rolls-Royce Business Aviation Engine Flies for the First Time
3 Apr 2024, 19:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / They call it the Pearl 10X, and it's a business engine so exciting it might just as well have been fitted on a fighter jet. Produced by Rolls-Royce, the Pearl 10X just entered the final stretch to become fully operational. The name Pearl 10...
USAF Working on Autonomous F-16 Fighting Falcons That'll Never Fly by Themselves
3 Apr 2024, 18:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are several goals humans are presently pursuing with a lot more fervor than they do others. We have a push for the electrification of cars and motorcycles, but also an accelerated race to achieve the human expansion into the solar system. In ...
This Robot Runs Facial Recognition and Can Use an Elevator Just to Deliver Coffee
3 Apr 2024, 17:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm pretty certain that at one point in your life you thought about what a robot takeover of the world would look like. The most likely scenario probably involves weapons-wielding, bipedal metal creatures shooting humans left and right until t...
World's First-Ever Moon Rover With Headlights Also Packs an Extreme Set of Camera Eyes
2 Apr 2024, 18:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If all goes according to plan, American space agency NASA will launch at the end of the year its very first uncrewed rover meant for the exploration of the Moon. They call it VIPER, and for all intents and purposes, it will also be the world's...
Combat Drone Flying With Two F-35s Attacks Targets to Prove It's a "Collaborative Killer"
2 Apr 2024, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a good chance that if you blinked these past two years, you missed a couple of very important developments when it comes to military drones: some of these things can now fly themselves, with no need for ground controllers, and on top o...
Americans Already Owned Formula 1. Now They'll Pay Billions to Own MotoGP Too
2 Apr 2024, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The motorsport world has several major competitions, but few of them are as visible on a global level as Formula 1 and MotoGP. Created for the purpose of racing vehicles on four and two wheels, respectively, the two racing series have long been con...
Improved Gulfstream G700 Cleared by the FAA, New Jet Beauty Ready for Business
2 Apr 2024, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aircraft maker Gulfstream has been in business since all the way back in 1958, and it has probably made thousands of airplanes since. So when the company says it completed "the most rigorous certification program in company history," that...
America Arming Itself with $4.5 Billion Worth of Brand New Attack Helicopter Missiles
2 Apr 2024, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although at some level one could say it's business as usual in the world, there's a palpable tension in the air. It is constantly spreading from the two major conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, slowly engulfing everything and everyo...
Blue Origin Tests Life Support System for the Orbital Reef Space Station
1 Apr 2024, 13:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For some of us humans the thought of living up there in space (or perhaps on another planet) is not just a thought, but a dream. A dream some of us might see come true soon enough, thanks to the many people and organizations working towards establi...
Plane With Diamond-Shaped Wings and No Control Surfaces to Fly in 2025
1 Apr 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One doesn't have to be an aviator to understand how an aircraft works. In simplistic terms, engines push it through the air, the wings provide lift, and various control surfaces like stabilizers, rudder, flaps, ailerons, and slats allow the pl...
U.S. Navy Fires Missile to Shoot Down Its Own Ballistic Missile During Test in Hawaii
1 Apr 2024, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was kind of a hot weekend over in Hawaii, where the U.S. Navy and three of America's prime defense contractors (Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin) came together for an impressive weapons test. The star of the exercise was t...
Here's How NASA's Breathtaking Gateway Moon Space Station Will Become Operational
1 Apr 2024, 10:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since Keanu Reeves had the "breathtaking” exchange with one of his fans at E3 in 2019, one has to take extra care in what context the word is used, as the bar was set pretty high. Yet that's the only word I'd use to descri...