[ExI] Americans are poor drivers

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 14:22:52 UTC 2009


On 7/9/09, Henrique Moraes Machado wrote:
>  I'm not advocating that everyone stop using cars altogether and turn to
> public transportation. Good public transportation is necessary indeed, but
> it's not all.
>  What I'm saying is that the object that we know as car is wrong and should
> be remade. For instance, motorcycles are way more rational as individual
> transport than cars, but they are not very safe (my broken leg has something
> to say about this). There are some projects like this tricicle hybrid
>
(http://www.hybridcars.com/plug-in-hybrids/ventureone-plugin-hybrid-commuter.html),
> that carry two apes and take half the space of a conventional car. They even
> lean on curves which also makes them fun to drive.
>

I want to see Rafal on a turbo-charged Segway, with fins and a cape!  ;)

BillK



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