I found this link about the energy efficiency to produce ethanol: http://www.wonderquest.com/ethanol-assumptions.htm Ed Danzer [Non-text portions of this...
Various idiots (eg UCS) keep saying that it is possible to design a small, lightweight car that will have a satisfactory crash performance in today's traffic...
duh.... bigger and heavier is always going to win in a crash... but ONLY when it hits a smaller and lighter vehicle... it's an arms race... The madness needs...
I think all cars should traditional from a hard shell design to a soft shell design. Basically all cars should have water or compressed gas or hard foam type ...
Greg, Broadly speaking physics will usually win but good design can minimize the damage to human life. Look at the videos on the Horlacher web site ...
... I'm actually quite impresses with how well the smart car's performed in the video. The bouncing around is one way the energy from the crash is dissipated. ...
Unfortunately, I think the bouncing around also translates to the driver's and passengers' brains bouncing around inside their skulls. Greg took the effort to...
... driver's ... That is not at all true. Bouncing up in the air is probably the safest direction to go in. The last accident i was involved in, a driver came...
... direction to go in. Well, sure--but the model I'm assuming is a head-on crash, so we're looking at bouncing backwards on the ground. It's the violent...
so Paul.. your saying heavier is always better? the madness needs to stop somewhere... time to give up on the lie of safety... no vehicle is safe... time to...
Oh, go beat up on Greg. He's the one insisting that SUVs and other behemoths on the road inhibit the adoption of lightweight cars. I happen to agree with him,...
Oh, thanks Paul. But yes, it is my bloody idea. I agree, a lighter vehicle fleet would be far more sensible. At the same time society has decided that there...
If an efficient drive train is developed to regenerate most of the braking energy, weight is not a large penalty. A vehicle with the same frontal area and...
... Well, I did a handling analysis of the Trimuter design and it is, with some exaggeration, 'unsafe at any speed'. More accurately, it will tend to roll over...
sorry Paul... I just hope if it's said enough that bigger is not better and bigger is not safer... people may just stop and think for themselves... I really...
none of the above Greg.. why not just tax according to weight?? road taxes should be paid by the pound... then smaller safer cars would be the rule... Bigger...
Hmmmm... are you using math for a flywheel there Ed??? maybe in a lab or a perfect world.... A car is not a flywheel... most of the energy used for hills not...
... Possibly. What sort of tax rate would you look at? Would the politican who proposed heavily taxing soccer-mom transporters in preference to Honda S2000s...
put everyone in smaller cars and the world would be a better place... Timothy... Amen to that. It was just occurring to me that we really have become utterly ...
I think I’m in favor of a weight tax, or actually, gas guzzler tax, to get these things off the road. But there’s so much political opposition to that that...
I've seen motorcycles, vintage cars, bicycles, mopeds and even horses all travel legally down my street. The Smart car is far safer than any of these forms of...
... Perhaps you need to take a closer look at your own statistics. Check the first column, 28,035 babies dead, of those only 168 died from a motor vehicle...
Not at this rate Paul :( I just saw gas for sale at $2.399 tonight... so it looks like they are caving in to big vehicles on the road again :( Timothy... ... ...
http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/kpfleger/autosafety/cache/safest/IIHS_driver_rates_discussion.html the larger vehicles here are due admittedly are due to their...
when in business you have a resale license... (on a farm you get a farm tag...) You could use your resale number (or farm tag number) to get a direct tax brake...
