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Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road
caffeined writes "Well, it looks like Honda is doing a real test of their fuel-cell car. A family in California is renting the car for $500/mo. Honda is charging them so that they take it seriously - an executive explained that if it were free they might not get the kind of feedback they want. If someone is paying for something and they're not happy - then you're going to hear about it. This is apparently the first fuel-cell car on the road anywhere in the world, according to Honda."
Charge them $500 a month to have the car blow up upon impact and kill the whole family. Sheesh.
I guess I can kinda see the rationale behind charging them, obviously you'd want some honest opinions, but perhaps a better way would've been to start a reality show based on it. You know, find the most wrong with this car and you can win $1,000,000!
*sigh* I hate tv tho.
You're nothing; like me.
It gets well below freezing in the winter and I often have to scrape the ice off of my windshield before work.
Hah! Boo hoo! Below freezing and (well) below zero are two very different things. In the winter I am able to scrape the ice and snow off my windsheild only after I've let it run for a good 20 minutes to "soften" things up. And I'm no where near the coldest areas of North America!
- Wisconsin Loves You
"but rather their own panic coupled with gravity."
How many times must you geeks be told? Gravity has never killed anyone in the history of mankind. It's the drastic change in momentum caused by the earth stopping their free fall. And if you paid attention to frames of reference in Relativity, you would know that the ground in fact accelerated upward and collided with them.
I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
Also it should be mentioned that the oil industry owns stock in these American automobile companies so they have a financial incentive to create gas guzzlers.
... and that they'll ... have to ... imitate one day...
Good thing they don't own stock in the Japanese car companies that will be competing with them
What was your point again?
Rank my idea: http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/node/531
Why change the discussion now? Normally, you discuss every thing with little to no knowledge.