motorauthority.com— Getting a new vehicle startup off the ground is tough, and even tougher when you're trying to build all-electric, three-wheeled, futuristic bubble cars.
Apr 15, 2010View in Crawl 4
My old 1971 Datsun (Nissan) could take that thing out in a collision. It may be a cool looking airplane c**kpit on wheels, bit it will not protect you from a collision from a paperboy on a bike, I mean a car... or do I...?
Yup, Ray is right. I remember seeing some early on crash tests and it actually performs very well! They constructed the front end to absorb most of the collision and the engine actually moves diagonally down allowing more room for absorption and probably to shift the direction of the energy flow which further reduces the impact. I'm sure you're not as protect as a person in an SUV would be in a crash though and certainly not that well protected when crashing into an SUV while in an Aptera.
linageeApr 16, 2010
200 miles per gallon of what? Didn't the article say this is an electric car?
roborayApr 16, 2010
They're required by law. It originally was going to have rear view cameras with displays for the driver. Thank your senator.
Closed AccountApr 16, 2010
This would be great for some eco-friendly drive-bys.
roborayApr 16, 2010
Actually, if you did even a tiny bit of research, you'd see that Aptera is voluntarily submitting to the crash testing, even though it's not required.
dustin00Apr 16, 2010
"Hopefully all of them will come in chrome."... and with a free light saber?
hopesteroniApr 16, 2010
My old 1971 Datsun (Nissan) could take that thing out in a collision. It may be a cool looking airplane c**kpit on wheels, bit it will not protect you from a collision from a paperboy on a bike, I mean a car... or do I...?
jpt62089Apr 16, 2010
Yup, Ray is right. I remember seeing some early on crash tests and it actually performs very well! They constructed the front end to absorb most of the collision and the engine actually moves diagonally down allowing more room for absorption and probably to shift the direction of the energy flow which further reduces the impact. I'm sure you're not as protect as a person in an SUV would be in a crash though and certainly not that well protected when crashing into an SUV while in an Aptera.
roborayApr 17, 2010
Oh, come on! I give somebody the perfect lead-in for a Back to the Future joke and all I get is a bury? This would never happen at Slashdot.
u3b3rg33kApr 23, 2010
Build me a damn eco friendly car that doesn't look like a turd. WTF people.