The technology to limit car speed has existed for more than 50 years — it’s called cruise control. In its common application, cruise control maintains a steady speed, but a minor adjustment would assure that vehicles, no matter the horsepower, never go past 75 miles per hour. This safety measure should be required of every [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘cars’
July 15, 2008
get out of my dreams, get into my electric car
she wants a 100 mpg car too, and thinks electric is the way to go. like I said before, I don’t care how I get 100 mpg equivalent (let’s say $0.04/mile, where right now my commute costs $0.14/mile), I’d just like to get there sometime soon.
moblogic.tv seems to have an interesting [...]
July 15, 2008
not so, smart
Some responses to my last post recommending looking at a smart fortwo. from smart’s web page:
What is the gas mileage of smart?
Engineering and testing continues to take place on the vehicle that will be produced for the United States. The vehicle is designed to achieve 40 city/45 highway mpg according to 2007 EPA standards and [...]
July 10, 2008
where is the one-person commuter car?
while driving an hour to work each day I’ve been obsessed with this for the past few weeks — why don’t we have a one person (perhaps a two-seater; one driver plus minimal storage) car that gets 100+ mpg? it should be pretty easy, shouldn’t it?
I mean, nobody wants to squeeze more than two people [...]
