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

May 2, 2018

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

Fox News reports.

20 comments:

Achilles said...: "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.; 5/2/18, 3:42 PM
John Henry said...: I'm not interested unless it is a BSA motorcycle.

John Henry; 5/2/18, 3:49 PM
Fabi said...: Define "spits".; 5/2/18, 3:56 PM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/2/18, 4:06 PM
Unknown said...: I guess they hired Homer Simpson as a designer.; 5/2/18, 4:06 PM
Rick.T. said...: I'm guessing the majority of people who drive a mini-van don't want to drive a motorcycle as well.; 5/2/18, 4:08 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Delusions of Batman.; 5/2/18, 4:16 PM
Browndog said...: 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.”"; 5/2/18, 4:24 PM
Meade said...: ...its gonna give you trouble.; 5/2/18, 4:49 PM
Original Mike said...: "Ford designed a car that spits out a motorcycle."

Is it named the Velikovsky?; 5/2/18, 5:25 PM
Wince said...: Does the motorcycle immediately become a registered vehicle -- even if the car isn't registered -- similar to "birthright citizenship"?; 5/2/18, 5:37 PM
Scott said...: Ford to stop selling every car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active; 5/2/18, 6:05 PM
Joe Bar said...: Honda did this decades ago. MOTOCOMPO!; 5/2/18, 6:16 PM
Caldwell P. Titcomb IV said...: Peter Plassmann said...Honda did this decades ago. MOTOCOMPO!

AutoWeek mentioned it.; 5/2/18, 6:36 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: 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.; 5/2/18, 6:45 PM
buwaya said...: 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.; 5/2/18, 7:01 PM
madAsHell said...: ....and to think! Subaru invented the flying vagina; 5/2/18, 7:01 PM
buwaya said...: Maybe the motorcycle is is meant as an escape craft for that one lucky survivor of the never-ending meeting on the freeway.; 5/2/18, 7:03 PM
Bilwick said...: I prefer one that swallows the motorcycle instead of spitting it out.; 5/2/18, 7:34 PM
Caligula said...: 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.; 5/3/18, 11:21 AM