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Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids

Posted by timothy on from the more-fun-that-way-too dept.

Gordonjcp writes "A renowned racing car designer has said that car manufacturers should be looking at making cars lighter to improve efficiency, rather than adding complex drive trains. In this article on the BBC News website, Professor Gordon Murray explains that a weight saving of 10% in a normal car would make more difference than switching to a hybrid engine and motor combination. Could this be the next nail in the SUV's coffin?"

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  1. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars by Firehed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or refusing to wear helmets. Or pretending that "skull caps" are helmets. I've been through a couple o' "Bike Weeks" in my time, and there are news reports *every freakin day* of bikers who die because they're not wearing helmets and bikers who manage to scrape through because they were wearing them.


    Getting yourself killed in a crash doesn't really impact others in the same way that running over someone because you were straddling the yellow line while chatting with your bff Jill does. Sure, it's got the same social impacts (family stress, etc), but at the end of the day you caused your own death by being stupid rather than someone else's.

    Of course you go on to say just this so I'm not really sure where you were going with that, unless you're merely pointing out that bikers are human and as such do stupid things too.
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  2. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars by __aamnbm3774 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You would have received my mod points if you mentioned Windows XP at some point in the dialog.