Audi R8 Check This Out

[Colton92]

Alex Roy, currently locked in an M5 with our own Damon Lavric, recently got a video tour of a rather nifty Audi R8 owned by someone who insists he remain nameless. Codenamed Blackbird, the coupe is stuffed with enough gadgets to be a testbed for NASA's shuttle replacement, but don't for a second think the interior resembles a jungle of wires, screens and antennae: all the electronic gear is seamlessly integrated in a most impressive way. A sample of the wares in the blacked out supercar with the gunmetal gray blade include four GPS units, two radar detectors, police scanner, CB radio, kill switch for all rear lights, high-speed broadband Internet with Wi-Fi running on a tablet PC, power ports, takedown lights, a remote-controlled exhaust bypass valve, and -- get this -- a liquid-cooled infrasonic wave pulse generator. Apparently, you don't want to stand by that last item if you wish to have children. Follow the jump for the whole story in moving pictures.

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/0...kbird/

[Altima_Coupe]

wow..thats pretty crazy...wht the heck is the wave pulse generator?

[notaverage]

It's the new and improved flux capacitor

[Colton92]

i wish they would have shown more of the things in it and used them like the siren and strobes, etc

[adidas2go]

wht the heck is the wave pulse generator?

Found this on a subaru site, sounds fairly logical to me.

"I think its a radar/laser jammer; not an electronic kind, instead a physical kind. Since sound waves are compressions and expansions of the medium that they travel through, I would imagine this device has the power to change the index of refraction of the air either directly infront of it, or if its tied into the chassis, the air around the car with infrasonic waves. This would mean that incoming photons (laser, radar) would have "zig zag" through the different indicates of refraction as they are traveling to, and bouncing away, from the car, slightly increasing the distance they have to travel and/or curving them (literally) away from the car. Kinda like a force field.

What does this mean? A radar/laser gun assumes that the speed of light in the detecting medium is constant...and it is, assuming constant density. This device might change the density of that medium (air) oh so slightly so that it throws range finders/speed detectors out of whack by varying that constant. Think heat shimmer on the roof of a car, on a sunny day. Hot air immediately over searing metal is less dense than the cooler air far from it, so light gets "bent" as it passes through that area en route to your eye. This device does something similar, changing the density of the air with sound waves, like a bomb blast shock wave or LOUD sub woofer."

[Sith LL_Coupe]

Found this on a subaru site, sounds fairly logical to me.

"I think its a radar/laser jammer; not an electronic kind, instead a physical kind. Since sound waves are compressions and expansions of the medium that they travel through, I would imagine this device has the power to change the index of refraction of the air either directly infront of it, or if its tied into the chassis, the air around the car with infrasonic waves. This would mean that incoming photons (laser, radar) would have "zig zag" through the different indicates of refraction as they are traveling to, and bouncing away, from the car, slightly increasing the distance they have to travel and/or curving them (literally) away from the car. Kinda like a force field.

What does this mean? A radar/laser gun assumes that the speed of light in the detecting medium is constant...and it is, assuming constant density. This device might change the density of that medium (air) oh so slightly so that it throws range finders/speed detectors out of whack by varying that constant. Think heat shimmer on the roof of a car, on a sunny day. Hot air immediately over searing metal is less dense than the cooler air far from it, so light gets "bent" as it passes through that area en route to your eye. This device does something similar, changing the density of the air with sound waves, like a bomb blast shock wave or LOUD sub woofer."

WOW

[AppleBonker]

Wow. And I thought I spent a lot of money on my car...

[notaverage]

Found this on a subaru site, sounds fairly logical to me.

What does this mean? A radar/laser gun assumes that the speed of light in the detecting medium is constant...and it is, assuming constant density. This device might change the density of that medium (air) oh so slightly so that it throws range finders/speed detectors out of whack by varying that constant.

speed of light never changes, no matter what the medium is, in fact light does not need a medium to travel in, therefore all photons will travel at the same speed no matter what this car can do, simple physics

If this is talking about the speed of sound, then yes, density of air will alter the speed in which sound will travel. This is due to the fact that, unlike light, sound needs a medium to travel through. This is the reason outer space is absolutely silent

[mikegtr06]

i want 2 lol

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

n who said that my strobes were gay lol this guy has em to