Dne'
Well-Known Member
At the heart of most cars today, still exists the same basic design of cars long ago. Pistons, cranks, and gas as the primary source of fuel, etc. Sure they have onboard computers, EFI,etc., and stuff under the hood I wouldn't touch in fear of it breaking!, Shouldn't we have been more advanced by now? I know Henry Ford would be impressed, but at the same time I could hear him say, "Is this the best ya'll could do after all these years?" Our CX9 Mazda is a wonderful SUV or whatever it's considered today, but the gas milage really isn't that great 17-24mpg, of course there are other vehicles that get considerably much better mpg's, but seems like with our superb technology we should be excelling in gas(or whatever alternative fuel source) mpg's.
I think another thing that is lacking is utilizing the force of stopping power ,recycling it back into the power chain. A car traveling a 70mpg takes a great deal of energy to stop, or in physics would be called potential energy, but we still use a brake system that's been in use for years(except for better materials and anti lock/anti skid), I know that some cars have upgraded system(forget what the system is called), but you see every car on the road is basically hydraulic/friction more like that of what Fred Flintstone utilized! We spend a great deal of energy making our cars go faster/quicker, but not utilizing this stopping energy to be reharnessed back into additional power! What a waste of energy!
just thinking on the computer~
I think another thing that is lacking is utilizing the force of stopping power ,recycling it back into the power chain. A car traveling a 70mpg takes a great deal of energy to stop, or in physics would be called potential energy, but we still use a brake system that's been in use for years(except for better materials and anti lock/anti skid), I know that some cars have upgraded system(forget what the system is called), but you see every car on the road is basically hydraulic/friction more like that of what Fred Flintstone utilized! We spend a great deal of energy making our cars go faster/quicker, but not utilizing this stopping energy to be reharnessed back into additional power! What a waste of energy!
just thinking on the computer~