COULD THIS BE THE WORLD’S FIRST NUCLEAR-POWERED AIRLINER? (NO.)
On January 5, 2011, I wrote the following: “Designer” is a dangerous term, because it usually means some crazy person with ridiculous ideas who then makes CAD drawings or actual…
Tag: transportation
4 REASONS SOLAR ROADWAYS ARE FUCKING STUPID
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…
TRANSPORTATION IDEAS THAT WON’T WORK (BECAUSE OF SCIENCE): PART 2
So in our last post that was titled like this, we visited some douche who thinks that he can get energy out of cars by making them worse. That was…
TRANSPORTATION IDEAS THAT WON’T WORK (BECAUSE OF SCIENCE): PART 1
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…
SHWEEB: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (THAT WON’T WORK) OF THE FUTURE
If you’re like me, you’ve always hated that our transportation systems like bikes and buses and cars all operate on an existing infrastructure, rather than one that would require a…
SIX MORE CATASTROPHICALLY USELESS CONCEPT CARS
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…
NINE CONCEPT CARS YOU (WRONGLY) THINK ARE COOL
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…
Unreasonably Dangerous Onion Rings 