Wednesday, January 16, 2013

This Just Doesn't Look Safe

La Jamais Contente (English: The Never Satisfied) was the first vehicle to go over 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph). It was an electric vehicle with a light alloy torpedo shaped bodywork and with Fulmen batteries. The high position of the driver and the exposed chassis underneath spoiled much of the aerodynamics. The light alloy, called partinium, is an alloy of aluminum, tungsten and magnesium.”

 

4 comments:

D.I. Felipe González said...

Safe is no friend of Cool and Fun.

Kal said...

I see someone being decapitated before impailing himself on a picket fence. Plus what could get stuck in the wheels like a long scarfe. All problems solved by a clear bubble top.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Betcha it made all the girls swoon though!

Kal said...

Because they all thought it was his penis with wheels or did my mind go somewhere entirely different?