Text 9173, 26 rader
Skriven 2007-12-30 05:41:34 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 9058 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: Euro values
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Replying to a message of David Drummond to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> Possibly.  About twenty years ago Popular Mechanics did an article or
 BA>> series of articles on an 'Urbacar.'  Tiny little thing made mostly
 BA>> out of fiberglass.  If memory serves its tiny engine - not much
 BA>> bigger than the one in a riding lawn mower - powered a generator
 BA>> that recharged the standard automobile (or deep cycle marine)
 BA>> batteries that provided the juice that ran the car.  I doubt that
 BA>> the Transportation Department would let them on the roads, because
 BA>> if they hit anything bigger than a bicycle there'd be significant
 BA>> damage.

 DD> They let motorcycles on the road - and they suffer if they hit
 DD> anything bigger than a bicycle.

 DD> Are you sure it wasn't the oil companies that squashed it?

Actually the safety standards demanded of autos are set by the US DOT (which,
incidentally, like many if not most US Government agencies has no
Constitutional
authorization to exist).  Those standards include crash protection, and the
Urbacar
had almost none.

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