Posted on 08/15/2010 7:38:06 PM PDT by Willie Green
The HumanCar is the souped-up, street legal version of an old railroad handcar. The four-seater can reach 60 mph when all four passengers are cranking - and there's an electric battery to keep it going when you need a break.
This particular model is the HumanCar Imagine PS, the latest invention of engineer Charles Samuel Greenwood. He's been working on his dream of human-powered automobiles for over four decades, and in the past few years he's created working two- and four-seater models.
Although it might seem that getting even a lightweight car up to 60 mph (or 30 mph on hills) would be a herculean task, Greenwood insists that even a senior citizen in decent shape could operate it successfully. (And there's proof of that in the video below, in which Greenwood takes the car out for a very fun-looking drive.) Of course, it helps that the car has electric plug-in capabilities, so the car can still reach its top speeds even when four occupants aren't rowing their hardest.
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Andy Capp’s car ran on the alcohol on his breath!
It seems that people like you, Willie, are not trying help mankind advance but take them back to worse times.
Leave no doubt, those previous years were worse in more ways than they were better. Our liberties and the free market gave us the choice to move forward and we, as a society, made those choices. Up till now those choices have made for better, longer lives and if we keep those freedoms our lives will get even better and longer.
Glorifying the olden days by forgetting the sickness and miseries and glorifying some of the quaint things does not make for true progress.
If we had one I would love to see who would hop in when my wife pulled up to the “Slug Line” for the 45 mile trip to the Pentagon.
It seems that people like you, Willie, are not trying help mankind advance but take them back to worse times.
You're obviously a dark-hearted spirit with little sense of humor.
Your wife should dump you.
Oooooooh. I hit a nerve!
You simply exposed the true nature of your character.
It looks safe. /sarcasm
—careful—that last suggestion might light up the “greens” to suggest running electric vehicles on pathways under power lines, using your method for power—after all that wouldn’t use any , would it?
Just think how fast it can go after a trip to Taco Bell.
My hovercraft is full of them.
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