Lamborghini creates world's first 'self-healing' sports car

The Telegraph ^ | 11 November 2017 | Nicola Harley

[mairdie]

Lamborghini has created the world's first self-healing sports car. The Terzo Millennio, which translates as third millennium in Italian, has the ability to detect and repair cracks in its body work.

Using sensors the car can conduct its own health check to detect any damages and self-repair itself by filling the crack with nanotubes to prevent it spreading.

The super car was created in collaboration with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. ...

The all-electric car is powered by supercapacitors rather than conventional batteries. ...

Each of the car's wheels includes its own integrated electric engine that glow as you drive.

[mairdie]

Now fixing those might take just a mite longer.

[adorno]

Lamborghini creates world's first 'self-healing' sports car

I read the title, and then went looking to read the part that mentioned how the car can fix its own engine and transmission and to its own tuneups and change its own tires and change its own oil, and...

Well, I'm highly disappointed that I didn't find any passage about the mechanical parts. I would have bought one, but I guess my money will remain under my pillow.

[EasySt]

Resistance is futile.

I think I could stand to let one try to assimilate me... ;-)

[minnesota_bound]

Others are further ahead. Many others in side links.

Transformer cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJPtPbV3IpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFlUu7r6fQs

Airplane - maybe real... : )
Air Plane transformer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0PlPptw9Ug

[mairdie]

The world has certainly changed since I made the movie about Alan Norton's animation project, Breaking the Utah Teapot, in 1989.

[Dr. Sivana]

You’re suggesting that the Lamborghini people next build a self-healing shopping cart?

Some of us would have a better chance of being able to afford the Lamborghini shopping cart.

[mairdie]

I suspect all of us.

[Yaelle]

Wendy’s. No Mickey Ds for me! And you gotta let me have a turn driving that sleek car.