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I guess you could say (ﾉ ͡⎚_ ͡⎚)ﾉ he MacArthur Parked it.
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Well that’s easy
- Avoid running over children
- Don’t explode
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Phryne was aware that there were such things as speed limits, but had never allowed the fact to cramp her style. The Hispano-Suiza was built for speed, and she didn’t want it to mope.
– Queen of the Flowers {A Phryne Fisher mystery} by Kerry Greenwood
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M’enfin?!?
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May I?
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Invest in and empower your R&D, Engineering, and Manufacturing departments
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Don’t expect your customers to make up for the above.
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Reminds me of a boat ramp, not sure if that’s a good thing.
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Yes, a wooden one. And given how quickly I’ve seen wood degrade in backyard decks, I too am not sure if that’s a good thing. A good thing, that is, to drive a vehicle over. Eep!
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Me again.
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some quotes
Here’s the conclusion of the study: “If the heaviest tenth of vehicles in America’s fleet were downsized to this lighter weight class, road fatalities in multi-car crashes—which totaled 19,081 in 2023—could be reduced by 12 percent, or 2,300, without sacrificing the safety of any cars involved.” In plainest English: If the people with the heaviest vehicles made do with slightly less, the impact to the safety of their lives would be literally zero, and thousands fewer people would die.
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For the electric Hummer’s rollout, people thought outside the box. In the absence of a well-timed real-life ground invasion to help boost sales, they paid Activision to feature the Hummer EV as a transportation option in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 , a move that immediately made an impression: “It hasn’t taken players long to highlight another one of its attributes: Using its massive, hulking frame to run pedestrians over,” Vice noted.
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OK—well, maybe you will indulge me in a little shit talk about the Cybertruck. If there’s a four-wheeled icon of this new era of excess, a true spiritual inheritor to the 2000s’ Hummer H2, the boxy, antisocial, Minecraft-looking mastodon that is the Cybertruck might have a better claim to that title even than the Hummer EV, its sharp-angled profile and blinding LEDs even more antisocial. Musk once said he was going to focus on building a little $25,000 electric car. Then he built that thing, with an MSRP starting at $72,000 and climbing well into the six digits, a price tag that did not include glue that works.
Musk’s rollout of that rough beast coincided with his foray into American government. There, he launched a one-man war with federal spending, which also ended in defeat. Musk “saved” almost nothing but succeeded in delivering massive civilian casualties—300,000, according to one estimate, mostly children—in his destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Quick work for the world’s richest man.
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Maybe expectations were too high. This large, loud something was surely better than nothing. But then the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a nonprofit group, did the math and found out that the Hummer EV is so big, so energy intensive, that it is actually somehow worse on a carbon-dioxide emissions level than the gas-powered Chevy Malibu. The Malibu creates over 320 grams of CO2 per mile, on account of burning gasoline. But when accounting for emissions from the electrical grid—as in, taking into account the emissions created in generating the electricity, based on the national average of energy grid generation—the Hummer EV results in 341 grams of carbon pollution per mile. The zero-emissions Hummer EV is worse on a carbon-emissions level than the world’s least-spectacular gas-powered sedan. A technological marvel.
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Not so sure these vehicles are things of the past. A few blocks from me, someone has a Hummer converted into a limousine. I don’t know if or how it manages to round any corners.
But as far as the “taxi bus” concept goes, I like the design of the Freeman Intercity Commuter, but for the minor details that:
- It doesn’t have so many doors as these other examples, &
- It does not seem to have actually existed except as one of my favorite Matchbox cars
P.S. Remember when they actually came in a paper box, like this? Maybe that was just the one store where we bought them - everywhere else had them in card-backed blister packs(?) like one would find today.
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