I want my fender skirts back.
Posted on 12/15/2013 2:58:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
It smears flies across your view and freezes up in winter, but now the humble windscreen wiper is destined for history.
Supercar designers McLaren are working on secret plans to replace the rubber wiper with a hi-tech ultrasound device that stops anything sticking to the windscreen. It would mean wiper arms heading down the same road as wind-up windows and ashtrays as they vanish from cars.
Adapted from a similar system used on fighter jets, the proposed design is understood to center on high-frequency sound waves that effectively create a force field across the windscreen preventing water, insects and mud from resting on the glass. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That stuff is absolute crap.
Hahaha...I was trying very hard to stay on subject!
“Do you still tutor to support your lifestyle there?”
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No, I am retired, living on my social security.
Trying to tutor here would be nothing like doing it in central Europe, where it is really deluxe and fun work.
“What do you miss the most from the US?
What do you miss the least?”
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I would have to give that a lot of thought.
All I can say now is that I would be in total misery if back in the Obamination of the USSA, not to mention that I would be in poverty, unless I still had a business, making a lot of money.
From what I understand, a small family needs $50,000 per year just to get by. Is that true?
Did you put it in your gas tank or something?
Good tip to do BEFORE there is snow on the roof.
As in Doctor Who? ...I was thinking Star Trek “sonic showers”.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sonic_shower
Ahh, as in the mythic hero Robin Bonnet ....
“As early as 2000, the media said the car companies were claiming it was to cut costs. Government involvement (depending on the country) seems to be centered around cutting down on “distracted driving”. “
That’s rich in irony considering all the electronic gadget options available.
I learned to drive in a WWII surplus Jeep (made by Ford). It had a hand-crank auxiliary starter!
That was a nice looking car, but it did look an awful lot like a Ford Thunderbird from that same era.
That crap is hydrophilic. It sucks water out of the air and sticks it to the windshield. Makes it impossible to see out of your windshield where the humidity is high.
I want my fender skirts back.
I just put layers of Saran Wrap on my windshield and tear them off as they get too dirty or wet. Sat in the car once in the winter too long and got freezer burn.
There wad a good reason for that. Elwood Engel was chief of vehicle styling for Ford when the Thunderbird to which you’re referring was designed, and then he went over to Chrysler, where he was responsible for the Turbine concept. Look at certain early to mid sixties Ford, Mercury and Lincoln vehicles, then look at comparable Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler vehicles of a year or two later. The clean, sort of slab-sided design of both manufacturers with blade fenders was due to Engel, it was something of a trademark, as was the rocket or jet inspiration of certain T-Birds, the Turbine, etc. I like the look of his work for the most part, it’s aged well.
“A force field across the windscreen”
How about a cloaking device? Can you order a cloaking device, too? Oh, those Romulans wouldn’t be trying to transport me up to their ship again if I had a cloaking device and some shields.
I want my 8-Track player back.
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