Originally posted by: Sheik Yerbouti
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Pens1566
Originally posted by: Sheik Yerbouti
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Sheik Yerbouti
We could start by making hybrids the norm rather than the exception. And we've had over 100 years to find something different. I'm not an engineer, but I have seen the advances in technology in other areas. Surgery is much less invasive, putting something into orbit is much easier, don't even start on computer processors, the one you buy today will be outdated in 6 months.
I am just saying that there has been minimal push to do that. Too much $$ to be had from big oil and the car companies. Eventually the car companies would fold to the demands of the people, they have in the past, we went from huge cars in the 70's to mid size and compact cars, specifically for mpg reasons.
Now with gas over 3.00/gal, the people might speak up again, demanding cars that get even better mileage, and short of revamping the engine, the hybrid is the easiest step to take,
They are already mass produced, they just need to be 5 of the 7 cars a company makes instead of 2 out of 7.
If the automobile industry moved like the computer industry....
1) Cars would stop working for no apparent reason while using them and you would have to turn them off and restart them.
2) Cars would be obsolete about every year and one would have to buy a new one or upgrade to keep up with the demanding road structure.
I see you broke out a joke from 2000 for this. Good job. And very relevant :disgust:
I thought it was the old joke about M$ Windows <insert version here>
??? I've never heard of the joke.
Sorry whiteboy, cause that's what blanconino means, I think that hit the peak of the bs-o-meter.
Here's the 'joke'
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five per cent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your cr would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off
Now, I don't ever recall saying cars should run like the computer industry. But it's a good business model to follow, how's Ford doing these days? GM? Chrysler? How's Intel doing? Or AMD or nVidia? Or ATI, because cars would be hardware, not software, and comparing them to software is innane and totally inaccurate.
Give me 1 valid reason why hybrids shouldnt be the norm and pure gas engines the exception. And I hate to burst your Al Unser bubble but you can go as fast and you like in them.