CAR BRANDS

[popeyespappy]

So how does Alex get a hold of a sample of her poop?

[Cyberman]

They're all on DVD.

[Anomalocaris]

Well I don't plan on trading in my pickup for a horse anytime soon, but the answer to the original question appears to be better. According to this article the average car produces 8,320 pounds of CO2 a year. This one says methane is more than 20x more effective than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. 18 x 2.2 x 20 = 792 so your average car causes 10x more greenhouse effect than your average horse.

An average car might transport an average of 2 persons an average of 10,000 miles in the average year, and cost those 2 persons an average of 300 hours spent in relative safety during the transit. How many horses does it take to pull a carriage with 2 persons 10,000 miles in one year, and taking only 300 hours to do it?

I somehow doubt that for truly equivalent amount of desired work done, an endothermic horse, whose metabolism is devoted 90% to keeping a constant body temperature, would be as efficient as an automobile, both in terms amount of total energy input required, and green house gas generated in the processing of that energy.

If you can harness your carriage to cold blooded lizards, maybe.

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You're right that nuclear is certainly cleaner than fossil in that there's no greenhouse gases, but of course there's all that inconvenient radioactive waste to get rid of. And we'll inevitably run out of Russian agents to eat it all.

Breed more russian agents.


At the rate of 20 milligrams per agent before they croak, it would take only 2 billion russian agents a year to eat the nuclear waste output of 1 mid sized nuclear reactors.

So we need an steady yearly output of about 1 trillion fresh russian agents to digest all the radioactive wastes from the world's nuclear power industry.

[DIRTY_DEEDS_93]

Also, Let's all keep in mind that an american car is the fastest car in the world. The Hennessy Venom GT is made in texas and beat the Bugatti by .63 mph

Not that this shit even has any bearing on how good a car is but...

It's based off a Lotus Exige. British car.

It's assembled and tested in England. Could technically say, it's English made.

To call this car "American" is a joke, frankly. And no, it's definitely fucking not, made in Texas. So quit the bollocks.

Look at the list of fastest production cars and tell me how many American cars you see there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fas...ction_cars

Also, just to be pedantic:

In 2014, a Hennessey Venom GT was recorded as exceeding 270.49 mph (435.31 km/h), but as the run was in one direction only, and only 16 cars out of a planned total of 29 have been sold, it does not qualify under the Guinness Book of Records or this list's criteria as the worlds fastest production car.

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I don't know, I think Tesla could make it's case against nearly every one of those manufacturers. (To be fair, Fiat has only owned Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge for a couple of years...)

I like Tesla but no fucking way in hell are they comparing to Lamborghini's, Bugatti's, Ferrari's, Porsche's or Alfa Romeo's. No car nut will ever put them in the same league. Why? Passion. Flair. History. Tesla just doesn't have that I'm afraid. Tesla is a different approach and has it's own great attributes, but they're totally different companies. Hell, Tesla is different to most every other car manufacturer out there, which is simultaneously it's biggest plus but also, in my opinion, detrimental when you want to compare because I don't think they can be.

Just trying to give us murrican's something to be proud of. At least our cars don't sound like blenders.

[Cyberman]

The BBC is planning to continue the show without Clarkson.

Actually, on this point:

There is only one man Who can replace Clarkson...

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[c172]

I'm partial to Volvo 240's, VW Golfs, Audis Saabs and many more. I don't own a car. My mother owns a Nissan Maxima that I quite like (current generation).

[Drich]

People are the problem, it seems!

The automated car can remove that problem, at the driver's side.
The pedestrian, on the other hand... :-s

My brother had the idea that the cars of the future could be fully automated and fully community owned, that means you could get on any car and ask the car to take you where you wanted then just leave it there for whoever would need it.
In a city environment, where there's an abundance of cars, that would make sense.
Plus, the automated car would not be prone to road-rage nor rushing home to watch some football game, so accidents should become reduced.

I don't see the community car as viable, because different people have different needs. I need a car with three children's seats. I know a guy who needs 6 such seats.
Although.... the absence of accidents could lead those kids seats to become obsolete...
The future is full of possibilities.

In high school I worked at a tire store. It was my job to clean the customers cars.. From that experience I know their will never be a community in which I would want to share a car with. Most of you people are animals that poop In Your cages. Your cars seem to remind you of your cages.

Think subway, without the accountability of 20 other people keeping me freekshow from taking a dump on the floor.

Publicly accessible cars would be a horror show.

[JuliaL]

Think subway, without the accountability of 20 other people keeping me freekshow from taking a dump on the floor.

Publicly accessible cars would be a horror show.

While I largely agree.
Video monitoring could help with accountability, though keeping the cameras from being vandalized would be a challenge.
Perhaps, deputize the AI running the car to protect itself with deadly force? Ed 209?

[popeyespappy]

There is only one man Who can replace Clarkson...

And here I was thinking

[Napoléon]

Just got bought a new car. Well chuft. Here's a video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp4DpREDZs

It's got a little dent in the rear bumper but otherwise it's a pretty decent car for the money. Gonna soup it up if I can, but that will be done over a the next couple of years.

Aaaaand embedded videos don't work :/