ABC News ran an article today entitled “Flying Car About to Take Off?” It’s the story of a firm from Woburn, MA called Terrafugia. (Click the link, really. You gotta see the cool little animation.)
They’re working on a vehicle called the Transition, which is a plane with folding wings that can be driven on a […]
Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Shorty
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Without question we’re in a “smaller is better world” these days. This weekend, on Saturday, the Boston Herald ran an interesting piece “Automobile Buyers Fall for the Small.” The article quotes a Seattle woman who just bought a Honda Fit, “I just don’t find it acceptable anymore that a car could come on the market […]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Shorty
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After World War II, in 1946, the Ford Motor Company hired ten men out of the Army Air Corps who rapidly became known as the Whiz Kids. One of them was J. Edward Lundy who stayed with the company into the 1970s. He was a power player at the automotive giant, one with close ties […]
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Shorty
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I’ve run into a number of articles lately discussing the danger nearly silent hybrid vehicles present to the blind. Last night I had the interesting experience of actually listening to a Prius for the first time. I was walking into the grocery store and heard a buzzing sound I didn’t recognize. Glancing up I realized […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Shorty
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