Rich people DO drive off without warming up, without consequences. When the lease expires they turn the rig in for another. No loss on their part. Its why unreliable Audis are still popular. The only people that pay the price are folks like us.
-Jesda
Oh goodness, the appointment scares me
Jesda wrote:Rich people DO drive off without warming up, without consequences. When the lease expires they turn the rig in for another. No loss on their part. Its why unreliable Audis are still popular. The only people that pay the price are folks like us.
-Jesda
that is very true.
but that doesn't mean a car shouldn't be made that puts its buyers at ease regardless of whether or not it was bought used.
about a car that flushes itself?? about a car that cleans itself? about a car that maintains itself? if i ever win the lottery, I will most likely invest at least a million dollars on researching sh1t like this. that may not be enough but what I know I will come up with will convince folks with more money to beg me to let them contribute
You want a car to carry around a 5-year supply of each fluid, to have a pump for each fluid, waste containers for all fluids, solenoids and switches, robotic arms to vacuum the interior, servo-actuated air/solvent jets, etc? I suppose you want the car to weigh the same so gas mileage isn't affected. Is this still for $50k apiece or are we willing to spend a little more? Companies that sell hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year are in the business to squeeze out every bit of profit and efficiency as possible. They hire talented people and spend much more than any lottery amount each year to figure out ways to do this.
TRUEST wrote:i mean, if actually spending 50 grand on a car, damn it, I want to live and ride in pure and i repeat, pure luxury. i shouldn't have to have any patience. not that am rich but rich people shouldn't have to have patience. no. just in get the car and drive off with no consequences. thats the way it shold be.
Are you thinking electric? IC engines just have far too many moving parts that require lubrication to simply get in and drive away without degradation of materials and their systems.
Fuel cells? Maybe, but even with oil at $40/bbl they are still not competitive with fossil fuels.
$1 million for developement? Try a billion and then throw in a few more billion. Then throw in some more billions. After all, you're going to have to invent materials that have never existed and probably change the entire fuel infrastructure. Not to mention the the present administration is using your tax dollars to keep us firmly on the fossil fuel leash and that is only costing about $1 billion per week.
Why not get into quantum mechanics and invent a technology that makes automobiles as a form of transportation obsolete?
"Why not get into quantum mechanics and invent a technology that makes automobiles as a form of transportation obsolete?"....
Patience my good friend, the technology is on it's way.....Your great, great, great, great (insert 10 greats here) grand kids might get to see it!
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9712/10/beam.me.up.ap/
Patience my good friend, the technology is on it's way.....Your great, great, great, great (insert 10 greats here) grand kids might get to see it!
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9712/10/beam.me.up.ap/