Originally Posted by conspiratemus1

The article's author manages to misuse two words, howlers that would have been caught if publications still employed editors.
-de facto when he means de rigeur.
-nonplussed when he means unimpressed. At least he didn't stick a hyphen in.
-A cranky editor would probably have carped at "assemblage" and substituted "assembly" but the usage is not, strictly, incorrect, just pretentious here.

And, the article gives not the faintest hint about how the mechs actually worked. Just that they tickle some part of the brain that goes "coooollll"...at least in some people.

Meh. (to the article, not the brakes, since I don't know enough about the brakes to go meh.)