The idea of solar roadways has been around for a while, and I haven't said anything about it because I thought it was self-evident how stupid it was. I was wrong. The Indiegogo page raised $2.2 million and recently, prototypes have been built, to much applause from the environmentally-minded. So now, instead of just being a... Continue Reading →
Eventually, there will come a day when people stop listening to "designers" with no background in physics who propose physics-based things. Until then, the word "designer" will continue to mean "dude with AutoCAD/Photoshop skills, a wild hair up his ass, and no connection to the actual world that real people live in." Now when you're... Continue Reading →
I have written about concept cars twice before. First up was GM, whose car concepts sucked in a kind of general way, but weren't really inherently impossible. Then there was the list of concept cars on Walyou, which were picked solely (as far as I can tell) because the person who wrote the article is eleven... Continue Reading →
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and have we got a treat for you. I'm going to set this up in my usual disconnected fashion, so deal with it. After this, I promise not to talk about cars for a while. This is a Panavia Tornado. It has two engines producing over 17,000 pounds of thrust... Continue Reading →
Two years later would come the worst motorsport disaster ever, when 86 people lost their lives and 120 more were injured. Eleven years after that, a disgruntled Henry Ford II decided that he'd had enough of Ferrari's victories and thrashed them four years running with the legendary GT40. And 27 years after that, Ayrton Senna... Continue Reading →
Here's the thing about concept cars. They're specifically designed to be way crazier than the end result. They're about showing off design ideas and engineering feats, and since they're not restricted by…you know, reality, they can be as outlandish and unreasonable as their designers want. And their designers are all on drugs. It's a way... Continue Reading →
