Cars that have no purpose being made

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Cars as we think of them are just fuckin retarded, given the alternatives.

And those would be?

Well, we could use electric cars. Or hydrocell batteries. Or they could be solar powered.

I guess my point is that gas powered cars are stupid.

 

[.Mudkipz.]

Cars as we think of them are just fuckin retarded, given the alternatives.

And those would be?

Well, we could use electric cars. Or hydrocell batteries. Or they could be solar powered.

Fail, fail and fail. Electric cars went obsolete in the 1930s for a reason, hydrogen currently has some major problems with storage, and you're having a laugh if you think solar power is viable for cars with the current state of technology.

Face it. Petrol was used as the original fuel for cars for a reason - and that reason doesn't just link to it being readily available in the 1900s.

In the future most cars will switch to gas as petrol prices rise we will be forced to or the community will have to walk as the average person will not afford petrol

 

[manaman]

Well, we could use electric cars. Or hydrocell batteries. Or they could be solar powered.

I guess my point is that gas powered cars are stupid.

Sort of. There is a whole lot more stored energy in gas there there is in batteries, lb for lb that is. Even with the much lower efficiency of a gas engine vs a electric motor (looking at 20% of the energy released through combustion being converted to usable energy vs the 90% efficiency of an electric motor).

Basically saying you can get a lot further on a tank of gas then 400lbs of batteries. In other words at current densities, batteries are only good for people that live inside a city and plan regular trips of no more then forty miles. Yes, forty miles. There are some battery types in the works, and some super capacitor systems that just might get the travel distance up to 300 or so miles, but that may not even be the near future. Super capacitors in general show promise as it is possible you will be able to rapidly charge those systems in as little as five minutes. With the need to conditions and cycle other battery systems you pretty much limited to charging at home, as charging anywhere else (with the exception of work, or a motel, or somewhere you are going to stay for a long time) is impractical.

Besides here in another couple of years we are going to start seeing the one effects of electric cars nobody ever seems to consider as millions of Prius owners start dumping there battery packs, and/or cars for new ones. With current technology the only pollutants coming out of the tail pipe of a properly maintained vehicle are CO2 and H2O. It's not as bad as it looks. Especially when you really start digging into the alternatives.

Hydrogen is not seeing significant use because of infrastructure problems, but I am not sure you are not trying to bring up something along the lines of a wonder-pill or a magic carburetor with your mention of hydrocell. That tends to be what the magic box vendors call their "hydrogen on demand systems". Supposedly they have some form of magic technology that allows them to efficiently use electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen then burn them and get more energy out of the reaction. This is just a modern day perpetual motion machine. Then again you could be talking about an fuel cell. Those have even more problems namely cost, and all the problems associated with hydrogen rolled into one, since they require pure hydrogen to function. Solar could work if you only want to travel 4 miles per hour on something that weighs as much as a moped and has a roof the side of a mini van.

All in all gas is still here for a reason. The Holy grail right now is a clean, efficient, zero or neutral emission system. If it existed we would be using it.

 

[Dys]

Hummers, gas guzzling vanity pieces.

So much better than MLs, X5s and every other "SUV" that is so incompetently designed that you can't effectively take them off road]/i].

If you live in the bush and want to drive around in a landcruiser/hummer/big fuckoff 4WD fine, I can see how smaller cars may get destroyed in that environment. If you want a big, heavy piece of shit to drop a couple of kids off to soccer in, you're a dumbass.

 

[Treblaine]

Personally i think that the smart car shouldnt of been made.
Yes its small u get a better parking space.. but for what you get jammed in a hot and sweaty car with only 2 seats no back seats and hardly a boot. you may as well drive around in a cubical all day.

Hardly the dumbest car. You know it is short enough that you can actually park it END ON into roadside parking that requires side on parking? That's damn useful.

I also don't see how lacking back seats is a problem for cooling, surely if there is lower internal volume of the car it would be easier for an air conditioning system to keep cool?

And I'd rather have a smart-car to drive to work than a fucking bike. Keep dry from the rain, warm from the cold, take hills easily.

Now the worst car has to be something which fails to even do those basic things, worse than a bike, it would have to be this:

The Solar Powered car. Technically, it is a car with more than 2 wheels and its own form of propulsion, but you are better off cycling or even walking.

It gives you virtually no protection from the elements, it can't handle hills - at all - and it won't even work if it's a bit cloudy.

Solar power is only a large source of energy over a VAST area collected over a LONG period of time. Solar powered cars even on the most blisteringly sunny days and perfect conditions can barely beat jogging pace and get absolutely spanked even by a simple bicycle.

This is a line of vehicles that NEVER should have been developed.

 

[OmegaXzors]

Trucks that are unrealistically proportioned to the road. I saw someone with a shitty Chevy truck literally try to back into a Wal-Mart parking space.

To do this, the following steps had to be taken:

Wife left the passenger side.
She went behind the truck and waved him closer to her.
The husband proceeded to back in slowly (while the passenger door was still open).

IF you cannot just swing into a parking spot, your vehicle is almost as fail as you.

I want the Audi R8 Spyder.