Rambling Caper: Inflatable self-assembled electric car can safely drive off cliffs

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Inflatable self-assembled electric car can safely drive off cliffs

This…is cool. Hopefully it will be available by 2010:

Creators of the first roll manufactured vehicle. Proprietary aerospace engineering & novel power systems bring you the best priced, safest, longest-range-electric, most durable, vehicles on Earth!
(The above pic is from this website)

snippets from this website, and also from this article "Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs"

“… maybe it's the fact that you buy the car online, it gets shipped to you in two cardboard boxes, and the estimated assembly time is less than two hours.

Perhaps it's that the car is made out of "airbags" - the same polymer materials used to cushion NASA's rovers when they landed on Mars.

Then again, it could be the company's claim that you can drive the car off a cliff without serious injury, and that it will float in a flood or tsunami.”

“The key advantages over competitors are that these are the safest, longest range, lowest cost vehicles which can be flat-pack shipped directly to users.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: so are you going to be trading in the van for one of those inflatable cars...; August 22, 2008 at 9:55 PM
rambling caper said...: Ha! As soon as I find one of them at one of "my stores" ... ;-); August 23, 2008 at 6:58 AM

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