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The Air Car Nears Completion
torok writes "According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 liter of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year."
this looks like the ultimate in vaporware, an as yet unavailable vehicle and runs on "air" might as well run on magic aether or unicorn blood. you can't even see air. pfft.
Seriously, how many brilliant inventions have we heard of lately, and how many of those vanish just days after being announced?
What about the far greater number of brillant inventions that vanish before we ever hear about them in the first place?!?!
If you are going to play the paranoid lunatic, aim high. There is no market for half-assed tin-hattery.
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Pesky kids let the air out of your tires, just fill em back up with your fuel... or run out of fuel, fill from your tires.
lift it, wait for the earth to rotate, put it back down.. you can probably pick up some regenerative braking energy on the way down.
You can flick a lit cigarette into an open bucket of gas if it has sat a while, and [the gas will] put out the cigarette. It sounds weird, but it's true.
Somebody was dancing with the Darwin Award.
Table-ized A.I.
It would be good, 'cause it would turn them into x-windows