Althouse: "Ford designed a car that spits out a motorcycle."

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"Ford designed a car that spits out a motorcycle."

Fox News reports.

२० टिप्पण्या:

Achilles म्हणाले...: "Designed"

Just in time for air taxi's and driverless vehicles to displace the current auto industry.

Motorcycles will only be popular as novelty items soon.; २/५/१८, ३:४२ PM
John Henry म्हणाले...: I'm not interested unless it is a BSA motorcycle.

John Henry; २/५/१८, ३:४९ PM
Fabi म्हणाले...: Define "spits".; २/५/१८, ३:५६ PM
Etienne म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; २/५/१८, ४:०६ PM
Unknown म्हणाले...: I guess they hired Homer Simpson as a designer.; २/५/१८, ४:०६ PM
Rick.T. म्हणाले...: I'm guessing the majority of people who drive a mini-van don't want to drive a motorcycle as well.; २/५/१८, ४:०८ PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...: Delusions of Batman.; २/५/१८, ४:१६ PM
Browndog म्हणाले...: Speaking of cars-

All newly manufactured vehicles to be sold in the U.S. are required as of Tuesday to have backup cameras equipped as a standard feature.

Advocates for the rule, which was mandated by the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency in 2014, hope today’s milestone will lead to fewer instances of drivers backing into people due to a lack of visibility.

“This day is so important because we don’t have a choice” when it comes to children’s safety around cars, said Janette Fennell, founder and president of KidsAndCars.org, an advocacy group that works to prevent accidents involving children and motor vehicles. “This measure will save countless lives, especially of children.”"; २/५/१८, ४:२४ PM
Meade म्हणाले...: ...its gonna give you trouble.; २/५/१८, ४:४९ PM
Original Mike म्हणाले...: "Ford designed a car that spits out a motorcycle."

Is it named the Velikovsky?; २/५/१८, ५:२५ PM
Wince म्हणाले...: Does the motorcycle immediately become a registered vehicle -- even if the car isn't registered -- similar to "birthright citizenship"?; २/५/१८, ५:३७ PM
Scott म्हणाले...: Ford to stop selling every car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active; २/५/१८, ६:०५ PM
Joe Bar म्हणाले...: Honda did this decades ago. MOTOCOMPO!; २/५/१८, ६:१६ PM
Caldwell P. Titcomb IV म्हणाले...: Peter Plassmann said...Honda did this decades ago. MOTOCOMPO!

AutoWeek mentioned it.; २/५/१८, ६:३६ PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together म्हणाले...: Haha. You said "Fox News reports."

A three-word oxymoron. Fox is not news and it doesn't report.

Liberace straight-copulates a woman.

Car paper flies.

Scaled rat time-travels.

Etc.; २/५/१८, ६:४५ PM
buwaya म्हणाले...: Figure 3 is intended for that regulatory compliance meeting you can't escape once you are on I-80. You will sit for two hours listening to people quibble about report formats.; २/५/१८, ७:०१ PM
madAsHell म्हणाले...: ....and to think! Subaru invented the flying vagina; २/५/१८, ७:०१ PM
buwaya म्हणाले...: Maybe the motorcycle is is meant as an escape craft for that one lucky survivor of the never-ending meeting on the freeway.; २/५/१८, ७:०३ PM
Bilwick म्हणाले...: I prefer one that swallows the motorcycle instead of spitting it out.; २/५/१८, ७:३४ PM
Caligula म्हणाले...: A car that spits out a motorcycle? It's not that it can't be done, it's just that one tends to end up with a not-very-good car, and an even worse motorcycle.

Now, why don't they invent a car that converts into a boat? Oh, that was done decades ago?

General-purpose electronic devices work well because they're based on general-purpose digital processors, which can then be re-purposed to do different things with software. The mechanical equivalent would be a blob of material and a 3-D printer that could convert it into whatever you might want- and then eat it and re-purpose it (quickly, and with zero loss of material) into something very different.

Mechanical engineering just isn't there yet (or even close). There's just no mechanical analog to the general-purpose digital processor that can be made to do very different things merely by putting new bit patterns into its memory.; ३/५/१८, ११:२१ AM