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Flying Car More Economical Than SUV
fusion812 writes "The M400 needs 35 clear feet to take off but thanks to its 770 hp engine can whiz to 365 mph - cruise control kicks in at 326 mph - and climb at 6,400 feet per minute. You may hear it before you see it: it emits a rather noisy 65 dba at 500 feet. Interestingly, with a fuel consumption of 20 miles to the gallon on the road, it's rather more economical than a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and looks positively eco-friendly compared to a Hummer."
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
for learning how to drive/fly one of these things?
Please, you're on Slashdot, we already know how to drive flying cars! Or have I wasted all these years playing video games?
If you get tired of waiting for flying cars, try some "life extending" organic almond butter from the good Dr. Moller.
I was under the impression that a tanker exploding was more environmentally friendly than an SUV. Better mileage too.
Just to nitpick, we don't use 8 significant digits when using km/l. 1 is more than enough. 8.5 km/l. Anything more is ridiculous, as the number will fluctuate anyway, and is probably rounded from something.
Here on Slashdot we often see posts like
"that's 8.50287411 km/l" followed by "see, this is why we don't want metric - it's too dificult to remember compared to 20 miles/gallon".
Of course we could do it the other way around as well. 8½ km/l 19.993239674108264552443197350831 miles/gallon. This is of course why we metric people hate imperial - it's too difficult to remember compared to 8½ km/l.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.