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Re: No Brake nor Gas Pedal

To: Red Midget <redmidget72@yahoo.com>, Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: No Brake nor Gas Pedal
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:30:47 -0700
Organization: Morriservice
References: <20020926205301.60785.qmail@web21201.mail.yahoo.com>
Hey!

Iraq has as much oil reserves as the remainder of the worlds reserves put 
together!  Why wouldn't Dubya want a war there?

Is this new car anything like the hiik up to the brain waves,  What was that 
movie, anyway?

Pa

Red Midget wrote:

> This type of technology for transportation seems like a good idea, but alas 
>not ever a possibility.  Especially if the oil lobby fella get wind of it.  
>And with a Bush in the white house ! Never, tehy want their oil holdings to 
>make more and more money.  Crap good ole George W. wants to flare up the mid 
>east unrest even more so his freaking holdings will be worth tons more.  Ok, I 
>will step off the soap box now before I get really started.
>  "Paul A. Asgeirsson"
> wrote:Hi All,
>
> I don't understand the flap over this. I don't know about you guys and
> gals, but I've had LBC's that had the same features up to almost 50
> years ago! Some had no exhaust emission, just lots of water in them!!
>
> What say you?
>
> >From the APNews:
>
> Sep 26, 10:57 AM (ET)
>
> By JOSEPH COLEMAN
>
> PARIS (AP) -
>
> For scientific wizardry, it was hard to beat GM's Hy-wire, which the
> company
> claims is the first drivable vehicle that combines a hydrogen fuel cell
> with by-wire
> technology, which replaces steering, brake and acceleration mechanisms
> with
> electronic controls.
>
> GM was eager to put itself on the technological cutting edge. Company
> officials
> said they developed the prototype less than a year after unveiling the
> AUTOnomy
> concept vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show.
>
> Larry Burns, GM vice president in charge of development and planning,
> said the
> company was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create "clean,
> efficient,
> very compelling and potentially more affordable vehicles."
>
> The Hy-wire's fuel cell means it produces no exhaust - only water. And
> with all the
> electronics fit into the chassis and no engine in front of the driver,
> there is plenty
> of storage space.
>
> "It holds the promise of eliminating the automobile from the
> environmental
> equation," Burns told reporters. He said GM hoped to start using some
> of the
> technology for marketable cars by 2010.
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