Student Killed Driving Solar Car

Lev13than writes "Tragedy struck the University of Toronto's Blue Sky Solar Racing Team on Thursday when 21-year old student Andrew Frow was killed in a car accident. It appears that Frow lost control of the low-riding experimental car and was struck by a minivan head-on. The team was driving from Stratford to Waterloo (about an hour west of Toronto) as part of a tour of universities in Ontario and Quebec to mark the one-year anniversary of the 2003 Blackout. This is a big setback for solar power advocates, especially as the blackout anniversary will pass with remedial legislation stranded in Congress. More information on the accident is available here." The vehicle's design is not really street-safe - this will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.

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Re:Hummers

[shawn(at)fsu]

Got to love the moderation here....

Re:Kitchener-Waterloo Record Story

[Quasar1999]

You have to ask the question, "should adults be able to engage in behavior that might place their life or health at risk?" If the answer is "no," then for starters we should ban motorcycles and bicycles and lower the speed limit to ten MPH. I think you'd find these measures would save on the order of 40,000 lives per year in the United States.

Not to mention saving a lot of fuel, since a 1/2 HP engine would be plenty for the largest car.

Why ban bikes and leave cars? That's just stupid... How about we ban cars... they are way more dangerous than a bicycle. Hell, the only time I've ever been injured on my bike is when a car hasn't followed the highway traffic act and nailed me while I was biking. If people were to get rid of cars, and have everyone on bikes, there wouldn't be the mess of accidents that there are today... Get rid of the cars, and you don't need speed limits... if someone can go fast on a bike, so be it... but it's a physical limit, not some imposed limit that everyone ignores. And I don't know of anytime that you are on a bike going any reasonably fast speed (say 40kph+) and are not damned alert... you are physically active, you can't be snoozing... in a car, you can sleep at speeds over 100kph... and you're in a huge 3 ton chunk of metal... bloody safe that is...