Cars
Carmagheddon
The ultimate low-rider. The video below is in Italian, but shows it being driven. It definitely can't go over any speed bumps.More info: Core77
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 07, 2023 -
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Category: Cars
Ford: The Going Thing
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 05, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Advertising, 1960s, Cars
Ghost Driver Study
Researchers at the University of Nottingham disguised drivers as car seats ("ghost drivers") to study how pedestrians interacted with driverless cars. In particular, they wanted to know what visual cues people would look for when deciding if it was safe to cross the road in front of a driverless car.I haven't yet seen a driverless car on the road, but when I do I'll now be wondering if it actually has a ghost driver behind the wheel.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 17, 2023 -
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Category: Science, Cars
Bumper Bottle Opener
William Cowan didn't invent the bottle opener, but he did invent, and patent, a method for attaching a bottle opener to a car's bumper (Patent No. 2,674,141).I can see the potential use for camping or tailgate parties. But it still seems odd that this was patentable. After all, could one get a new patent for every different object a bottle opener could potentially be attached to?
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 20, 2023 -
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Category: Patents, 1950s, Cars
LaBoata
The LaBoata was created in Spokane, but it's recently been spotted around Phoenix, which is my neck of the woods.More info: auto evolution
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 11, 2023 -
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Category: Boats, Cars
The Mad Martian Pinstriper
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 06, 2023 -
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Category: Aliens, Music, 1950s, Cars
Will Rogers Nominates Henry Ford for President
The election season heats up!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 17, 2023 -
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Category: Politics, Historical Figure, 1920s, Comedians, Cars
Vintage Trophy Girl Photos
Hot rod/dragstrip racing has always featured beautiful women to hand out trophies or generally add allure to the scene. The folks at Jalopy Journal have assembled nearly 300 pages depicting same.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 16, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contest, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Women, Cars
The automobile of the future
From the Washington Times - Jan 6, 1918:
Compare this to the Zoox, the self-driving robotaxi that Amazon is developing. Not an exact match, but similar enough that I'm going to call the 1918 prediction a success.
Though note that the 1918 car still had a driver. So the future managed to outdo what the futurists of 1918 imagined.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 02, 2023 -
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Category: Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, 1910s, Cars
The Dynasphere
Invented by Dr. John Purves in the early 1930s. The driver in the pictures and video is his son.
image source: rarehistoricalphotos.com
Many have noted the limitations of the Dynasphere. For instance, this is from Joe Rhatigan's Inventions That Could Have Changed The World But Didn't (2015):
It seems to me like these are all problems that computer-aided technology could overcome. So, given that the Dynasphere looks like it would be fun to drive, I'm surprised that a version of it isn't in production somewhere.
More info: wikipedia
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 27, 2023 -
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Category: 1930s, Cars
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