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My only gripe with these quick answers or excerpts is sometimes it doesn’t fully give the context. After it’s given me couple wrong results I stop trusting it and always read the source. If I were to read the source might as well click into the website and read the whole thing.

I often default to using Kagi’s FastGPT when I want direct information instead of a starting point for web browsing. It combines web searches with LLM summarization to produce an integrated, sourced answer. Kinda like “New Bing” with a better interface. You can trigger this mode by adding “!fast” to your query, going to https://kagi.com/fastgpt, or using their API. Here’s what it returned for me on those specific queries: ========== "why do wider tires have better grip?" Wider tires provide better grip due to having a larger contact patch with the road surface. A larger contact patch means the tire can disperse the weight of the vehicle over a wider area, reducing pressure. This allows for more friction between the tire and road, improving traction and cornering ability. However, wider tires do not necessarily provide better grip in wet conditions. [1][2][3][4][5] 1. wheels - Does a wider tire always mean more grip/traction - Motor ... 2. Do Wider Tires Give You More Grip? Not All the Time 3. Learn Me: Wider tires = more Grip? = Faster cornering?| Grassroots ... 4. Wide or narrow tires? Here's how your choice will affect driving ... 5. VIDEO: Do wider tires offer more grip? - BMW M3 and BMW M4 Forum ========== "why do they keep making cpu transistors smaller?" There are a few key reasons why CPU manufacturers keep making transistors smaller: 1. Smaller transistors allow more transistors to be placed on a single chip, enabling increased processing power. More transistors results in more capabilities and performance. [1] 2. Smaller transistors use less power and produce less heat. This allows CPUs to operate faster and with more cores/threads within the same power and thermal envelope. [2] 3. Moore's Law, an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Following this trend has driven the semiconductor industry to continue shrinking transistors. [3] 4. Smaller transistors can switch on and off faster, enabling increased clock speeds. This directly leads to increased performance. [1] However, we are rapidly approaching the fundamental physical limits of transistor shrinkage. Transistors cannot be smaller than an atom, which is around 0.2 nanometers for silicon. [4] Alternative technologies like carbon nanotube transistors may be needed to continue performance growth beyond this point. [5] 1. Why does computer chip process size have to keep getting smaller ... 2. Why does smaller = less heat? - CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory ... 3. What Is Moore's Law and Is It Still True? 4. Transistors are an essential building block used in almost every ... 5. These Transistor Gates Are Just One Carbon Atom Thick - IEEE ... ========== "vancouver snow forecast winter 2023" Based on the context provided: The winter of 2023-2024 in Vancouver is expected to see less snow and milder temperatures than typical winters. Forecasts predict a below average snowfall season with warmer weather [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Long range forecasts through December 2023 for southern British Columbia call for showers along the coast and less precipitation inland [7]. Metro Vancouver's fall and winter is also predicted to be a potentially 'down' snow year [4]. Confidence is high for a mild winter in western Canada with reduced snowfall amounts [5]. However, specific snowfall totals are uncertain given the long lead time [6]. 1. Vancouver winter weather: Less snow, milder temperatures ... 2. 2023-2024 British Columbia Winter Forecast Preview | OpenSnow 3. Snow Prediction Vancouver Winter 2023/24 — Alblaster Snow ... 4. Metro Vancouver's fall, winter forecast | CityNews Vancouver 5. What will this winter be like? Grab the hot cocoa — here's your 2023 ... 6. Canada's Winter Forecast: El Niño a critical factor for the season ... 7. 60-Day Extended Weather Forecast for Vancouver, BC | Almanac.com

That first result re: tires is simply wrong. Wider tires don't have a larger contact patch; the size of the contact patch is determined by the weight of the car and the air pressure in the tires:

    A = W / P

So the reason wider tires improve handling is more complex and subtle. Also, FTA:

    Assuming a baseline of a moderately wide tire for the wheel size.
      - Scaling both of these to make both wider than the OEM tire (but still running a setup that fits in the car without serious modifications) generally gives better dry braking and better lap times.
      - In wet conditions, wider setups often have better braking distances (though this depends a lot on the specific setup) and better lap times, but also aquaplane at lower speeds.
      - Just increasing the wheel width and using the same tire generally gives you better lap times, within reason.
      - Just increasing the tire width and leaving wheel width fixed generally results in worse lap times.

A full accounting of the effects of changing tire width should explain all of these effects.

So, why is it?

Such a nerd snipe this one. 400+ comments and still could not get the answer.

As a partial explanation, maybe it's not the case that area = weight/tire pressure as an absolute rule? In which case we get back to the layman knowledge of "wider tires have a greater contact area."

As an extreme example, run flats at atmospheric tire pressure don't drastically change their area.

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