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 mock-ups of his crazy ideas and yet, for some goddamn reason, I appear to be the only person to notice that said idea is crazy.... Continue Reading →
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 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 →
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 a bad idea. This idea is quite a lot worse. Here's the headline: Again, a preposterously bold claim. The idea is that this train would travel... Continue Reading →
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 "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 →
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 huge amount of money and disruptive construction projects to reinvent. Right? I mean, riding your bike on roads that are already there? What's up with... Continue Reading →
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 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 →
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 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 →