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immoderate

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34. It seems a scam to me.

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 03:43 PM

Dec 2012

You can't compress enough air to go anywhere. You get a few miles from a car that size.

The air car has been around longer than the Web, surely longer than DU. And there's nothing on the roads. Every few months of so, someone posts about it here. You can't buy one or even test drive it.

Meanwhile, Google has put about a million miles on a self driving car, that is provisionally licensed in CA and NV.

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Want!!! [View all] madamesilverspurs Dec 2012 OP

we are inching towards a flatulence powered automobile NightWatcher Dec 2012 #1

Well, we have the SmartCar... KansDem Dec 2012 #29

RahahahahtrjaodgngoewrtweggriweqnDKDF! roguevalley Dec 2012 #42

I have a cat which will power a dozen of these cars, then! dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #45

Looks like a Disneyland ride car. tblue Dec 2012 #2

I was just thinking it looked like a Disney Ride for the kids. glowing Dec 2012 #21

Trying to get in and out of that thing LiberalEsto Dec 2012 #3

I would love it for city driving. I just drive around town at most, pick up a few groceries. JDPriestly Dec 2012 #43

It looks like a ladybug! Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #4

I hope the AC is powerful Fumesucker Dec 2012 #5

In India? It'd be an oven in there. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #19

Range? How far can 175 litres of air take you? Electric Monk Dec 2012 #6

200 meters? n/t guardian Dec 2012 #9

But there's an electric compressor to pump more JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #26

Should be safe. Get hit and just roll away. But you might get pretty dizzy. Auntie Bush Dec 2012 #7

Hmmm.. HappyMe Dec 2012 #8

Imagine getting hit my my neighbors Esplanade? sellitman Dec 2012 #10

The French bongbong Dec 2012 #11

Looks like it would be horrible in snow gollygee Dec 2012 #12

That's silly. James Bond wouldn't be caught dead gadding about in one of those! randome Dec 2012 #13

Bond will drive whatever Q gives him to drive! JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #22

It looks like the horn sounds a lot like the Roadrunner lunatica Dec 2012 #14

It would be so cool to have a bad ass air horn attached to that thing! dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #46

Cute! nt Hun Joro Dec 2012 #15

there was a company in Spain I believe Sherman A1 Dec 2012 #16

I just love the "zero emissions" nonsense. eggplant Dec 2012 #17

+1 (NT) reACTIONary Dec 2012 #28

Even if you depend on your lungs to fill it, there's the CO2 problem. RC Dec 2012 #38

+1! eggplant Dec 2012 #48

OMG. Want, too!!!!! In white? nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #18

No more 'zero emissions' than an electric car. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #20

This has been the automobile equivalent of vaporware for something like 10 years. Android3.14 Dec 2012 #23

It seems a scam to me. immoderate Dec 2012 #34

Wonderful applications ewagner Dec 2012 #24

I'm gonna call it a Ladybug. ananda Dec 2012 #25

I don't see that thing making it through some of the potholes I encounter obxhead Dec 2012 #27

They've been promising that car forever Shankapotomus Dec 2012 #30

Meh...I'll pass for now. Jamaal510 Dec 2012 #31

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal" Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2012 #32

OMG, we might've found a use for Rush Limbaugh!! and Hannity lastlib Dec 2012 #33

Kind of cute but I'd worry about safety Liberalynn Dec 2012 #35

A compressed air tank with enough energy to propel a 1000# car 50 miles... lumberjack_jeff Dec 2012 #36

I wish they thought "convertible" for weight reduction,...and fun. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2012 #47

FOUR YEARS OLD James48 Dec 2012 #37

Hoax? progressoid Dec 2012 #41

Looks like MynameisBlarney Dec 2012 #39

Replace the joystick with a steering wheel and give it four wheels for stability, 1monster Dec 2012 #40

With that single front opening door it reminds me of the Isetta TexasProgresive Dec 2012 #44