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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Rafal wrote:<br>What would Rafal drive? A car with a titanium sphere fully enclosing<br>me, gimbaled to allow free rotation in an accident (a human can easily<br>
survive 130 - 150 g deceleration in the antero-posterior direction,<br>much less otherwise). Of course, I would need fully synthetic,<br>multispectral vision inside, a motorized deceleration harness, a<br>supply of air (in case I get into an accident where the car bursts<br>
into flames, trapping me inside), creamy Italian leather seats, and a<br>kick-ass audio system.<br><br>On the outside of the sphere, the car should have a titanium-carbon<br>fiber skeleton that allows sliding of the sphere during impact, to<br>
provide maximally long deceleration pathway at about 150g, enabling me<br>to hit a concrete wall at 100 mph and never even lose consciousness.<br>It should also have 8 wheels with in-hub electric motors (with active<br>electromagnetic Bose suspension!), with at least 600lb/ft of torque<br>
combined, powered by a gas turbine hooked up to an ultracapacitor.<br>There should be also computer-controlled gas-rocket motors mounted in<br>front, to provide extreme deceleration thrust (>10g) during panic<br>braking.<br>
<br>With these gizmos I could drive at sustained 200mph safer than in my<br>present car at 60 mph, and probably still burn the same amount of gas<br>per mile.<br><br>All that should be wrapped in a smoothly aerodynamic fuselage,<br>
brightly polished stainless steel, raked uprights, bright crystal LED<br>lights, all low to the ground (but capable of jumping curbs if needed,<br>thanks to the Bose suspension), the very image of automotive beauty.<br><br>
Finally "Where would Rafal drive?" - Anywhere the cops wave you on<br>with a smile as you pass them at 215 miles an hour.<br>>>></blockquote>
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<div>I love it! But please provide us with some pictures... : )</div>
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<div>John</div>
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