An idea to stimulate creative thought towards efficient cars...

[Pierre.Suave]

Since auto manufacturers are fond of saying that they go racing in an attempt to improve their road cars, I propose a new racing league. A racing league where the objective is not to see who can go the fastest with the most horsepower, but one in which we see who can go the farthest with the least amount of gas, or a fixed amount of gas, allowing for all other technologies to supplement the cars such as solar, regenerative braking, etc...

Discuss...

[vadawg]

1. are you gonna air it at 2am to help people sleep

snoozefest or what, unless they are allowed to use weapons etc kinda like a deathrace.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Yeah

it will be a bunch of Prius's with Browning .50 Cal Machine guns on a turret on the roof racing around downtown Detroit...

:rofl:

[Bertha Venation]

2. I don't know anything about engineering, or the processes

by which cars are designed, but this sounds like a good idea to me.

[Pierre.Suave]

4. Yeah, I think so

lets get the same creative energy used to develop faster, stronger, lighter, and more powerful cars to the development of more efficient cars.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. The SAE has been doing stuff like that for decades

but it's done with college engineering kids.

It's too bad none of those students who participated thought to take the idea to the higher level.

But then, remember: this is the United States. Who's gonna go see a race that isn't loud, fast cars that have a good chance of crashing and exploding?

[Pierre.Suave]

6. Yes, I am aware of that

The U of Michigan has a consistent record of winning that race too with their solar car. I would like to see it on a grander scale with some real incentive to win, such as, for example, if you win some Auto company will consider building it and you make a bank vaults worth of money.

Or you get to patent your ideas and sell them to auto manufacturers, etc.. something to make it worthwhile, and to include the wealth of engineering talent of all those people that can engineer an F1 car, which is pretty damn awesome as a Machine.

[surrealAmerican]

7. It would be a valuable sort of competition to have ...

... but probably not interesting to watch. Then again I find most auto racing pretty dull, so maybe I'm not a good judge for this.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. Most auto racing is pretty dull

I am more interested in the part of it that stimulates creativity and progress towards efficiency.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Now, if the contest were to see who make a Prius canon shoot a Prius the furthest,

using the least amount of energy, into cities...

I'd watch that!



FOOOOOOM! ...... (whistling of car in parabolic trajectory) ........ BADOOOM!

"Two point three miles on that one, Jim! That was a good one! Looks like it landed in a lawyer's office, too. Nice shot!"

[Pierre.Suave]

10. HAHAHA

[vadawg]

11. top gear are probuably the only guys who could do this and make it interesting

but id love to see jezzer poo pooing all the contestants.

[surrealAmerican]

12. It does sound like their kind of challenge.