Daniel Patrascu
18,633 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.
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...
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N eN1 Is a Very Complicated Way of Saying Badass Electric Race Car
31 Mar 2024, 10:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As I'm writing this we're smack down in the middle of one of America's largest auto shows, the one taking place in New York. Far less impressive than we would have hoped, the event already went through the usual trials and tribulatio...
10 Exciting Mini Motorcycles for Kids and Young Riders
31 Mar 2024, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a sort of saying going around claiming that if you want to be good at something, you have to start doing it young. A sort of practice-makes-perfect affair that couldn't be more obvious than in the motorcycle world. Most of toda...
Harley-Davidson Captain Cruise Is a Road King With the Perfect Touch of Custom
30 Mar 2024, 23:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are several baggers selling new in the world right now, but only one of them steals the crown of ruler of them all: the Harley-Davidson Road King. Offered solely in the Special version at the moment, the model is the flagship of Grand America...
Powerful Spacecraft Impact Turned Squashed Ball-Shaped Asteroid Into an Oblong Watermelon
30 Mar 2024, 00:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In late 2021 our species launched the first space weapon against a killer asteroid. Ok, it was not exactly a space weapon, and its target was nothing more than an innocent piece of space rock floating in space with no malintent toward us, but the m...
Harley-Davidson GP-Monza Is Probably the Most Expensive Custom Breakout in the World
29 Mar 2024, 23:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No one ever did such statistics, but even a superficial look at what the global custom motorcycle industry has to offer will reveal the Harley-Davidson Softail is a favorite platform for garages. And of the Softail breed a model stands out above al...
AI Is Training to Fly Drones and Fighter Jets Because Why Not
29 Mar 2024, 20:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm not sure how many of you have heard about something called Hivemind, but if things keep going at this rate, chances are pretty much everyone in this world will know what that is. Hivemind is an AI. Not the kind of AI people use to fake ...
$754 Million Worth of Brand New Armored Vehicles Coming to Kick Vietnam-Era APC Out
29 Mar 2024, 18:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. Army's M113 first came into the world in 1960 as a tracked armored personal carrier designed for the toughest of battlefield conditions. Back then, it was considered one of the most potent machines of its kind, and its deployment in r...
America's Most Vicious Military Helos Are About to Get Deadlier
29 Mar 2024, 18:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As one of the world's major helicopter manufacturers, the Americans from Bell are presently offering several aerial platforms of this kind for the American military, with a few others on the way. But there is little doubt in anybody's min...
This Is the Quarterhorse Mk 1, Forefather to an Aircraft Faster Than the SR-71 Blackbird
29 Mar 2024, 17:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Many of today's active adults were not even alive, or they were very young at best, back when the absolute speed record for a crewed aircraft flying in Earth's atmosphere was set. That happened back in 1976, when an American SR-71 Blac...
Skootr Is the Creepy Tripedal Robot Anyone Can Make for $500, Doesn't Mean You Should
28 Mar 2024, 12:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of robots is as diverse and exciting for some as it is scary for others. Depending on how one feels about these things, they can be either the definitive path humanity should take to evolve, or something we should steer clear of at all co...
The First-Ever Lotus F1 Car, Driven by Graham Hill, Is Hoping to Get $420K at Auction
28 Mar 2024, 11:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Formula 1 cars are, without a doubt, some of the most extreme pieces of engineering devised by human hands. Made to go fast and hard on challenging tracks for the glory of their builders and drivers, many of them tend to disappear from public view ...
Scale Model of Brand-New Blended-Wing Body Aircraft to Fly Soon
28 Mar 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the U.S. Air Force is moving to modernize its fleet of aircraft, it is looking to new and innovative designs to help it advance its goals. And one such design is that of a blended-wing body aircraft, an idea on which the military branch plans to...
Fisker Ocean Electric SUVs Now Have Ridiculously Low Prices, But Are They Worth It?
28 Mar 2024, 08:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's no secret anymore that electric carmaker Fisker is not doing very well. Struggling with financial issues for some time now, the company received another blow this week, when the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) moved to suspend trading afte...
5,000 People Went For Sydney Sweeney's Custom 2024 Ford Mustang GT, Contest Rookie Gets It
28 Mar 2024, 06:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are people in this world who have made a living from taking part in online contests, sweepstakes, and all sorts of competitions. Most of us, however, only occasionally enlist for such things. And there are the few who have never entered a con...
Jeff Bezos to Send Blue Ring Space Truck in Orbit on Secret Space Force Mission
27 Mar 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In October 2023 the space company owned by former Amazon head honcho Jeff Bezos announced the arrival of something called Blue Ring. A spacecraft by design, the hardware was envisioned as a sort of space truck, meant to handle orbital logistics and...