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Amphibious Car Beats Urban Congestion

Posted by simoniker on from the hitchhikers-wear-life-vests dept.

woodhouse writes "According to BBC News, a company in the UK have just tested a fully amphibious car on the Thames river. It can travel at up to 100 miles an hour on land, and its wheels fold up to allow it to speed across water at 30mph, propelled by a jet. The company responsible, Aquada, suggest it's a good way to avoid congestion."

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  1. Re:Cool Car by The+Dobber · · Score: 0, Troll


    Not to be pedantic but it is "aqueduct".

    And I'm not sure if the paving of the LA River banks qualifies. But I digress from todays true mission, Illitate Reformation.

  2. The wonderful power of PR by pork_spies · · Score: 1, Troll

    This garbage invention (how many people are really going to want to use it?) got wall to wall coverage in the British media yesterday - even though they made all these ludicrous and bogus claims (eg Thames has no speed limit).

    You have to wonder whether they were giving the hacks loadsa free drinks or something.

    Predictably just about every report mentioned James Bond - the whole thing fed into the British sense of themselves as pluky amateurs (as James Bond surely is).

    Absolutely crap.