Car Thread

[healey36]

Billboard, schmillboard...let's see some cars:



Ralph De Palma, August 1917, Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Long Island, New York.

That is one seriously big steering wheel...

Healey

[Tom Dempsey]

Yes, it appears that the automobile is equipped with Arm-Strong brand power steering.

[healey36]

Yes, it appears that the automobile is equipped with Arm-Strong brand power steering.

Hahaha

[robert.]

If i had unlimited funds . I'd buy one of these v12 powered cars. My car radio gets advertisements all the time. If you have a modern radio that tells you what songs are playing. Watch it. It will flash up tire specials or local store specials. My radio will flash across the bottom. Now playing pink Floyd Money. Buy 3 tires get the 4th free at NTW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNi_HnwxfY

[E7]

My car radio gets advertisements all the time. If you have a modern radio that tells you what songs are playing. Watch it. It will flash up tire specials or local store specials.

Not a given. Depends on the station you are listening to!

[John Webster]

I saw the interview with the lawmaker who wanted to make driving illegal on one of the overnight news programs so I don't remember his name. The idea has been out there for a couple of years.

Here is a discussion that includes it:

https://www.thrillist.com/cars/6-reason ... ral-motors

[E7]

I saw the interview with the lawmaker who wanted to make driving illegal on one of the overnight news programs so I don't remember his name.

A candidate for the "those to be neutered list"!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Here's news on the car and transportation front:
Virgin Hyperloop One

[Roy]

Here's news on the car and transportation front:
Virgin Hyperloop One

Ah, yes... the department store vacuum tube for people. Some day, we'll have to go to an amusement park, just to drive a car. That'll be demolition derby day!

[healey36]

I find it unlikely there’d be a mandated migration to electric cars, much less driverless. Nothing in the American psyche demonstrates liberty/personal freedom more than jumping in your F-150 and heading off down the road...behind the wheel. If folks won’t give up their guns, there’s an even bigger group that won’t cede their right to drive an automobile.

Not in my lifetime anyway...

Healey

[rogruth]

Healey, I think you are right.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I find it unlikely there’d be a mandated migration to electric cars, much less driverless. Nothing in the American psyche demonstrates liberty/personal freedom more than jumping ...behind the wheel. ...folks won’t... cede their right to drive an automobile.
Not in my lifetime anyway...
Healey

I agree with the essence of what you have asserted, Healey. Once the automobile made its appearance, it quickly came to represent - and provide - a great feeling of independence, freedom, and adventure to Americans (and to the world, too, I would imagine[Think: Italy: Fiat, post WWii].) I would never willingly surrender the feeling of being behind the wheel of my own car, not even if I were the last one driving myself in the whole country and everybody looked at me as I drove by and laughed at me like I was the last remaining old coot who didn't know any better or was too old fashioned. God willing, my health and intellect will always permit me to drive myself. Both hands on the wheel; one foot on the brake or accelerator (I never use "Cruise-control" and do not drive with one foot on the gas and the other one on the brake,) alert and making decisions every second.

Getting a driver's license was NUMBER ONE, at sixteen, in signaling I was "coming of age" in my little corner of Pennsylvania.

And the adventure of my own automobile is always there awaiting me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If you have a modern radio that tells you what songs are playing. Watch it. It will flash up tire specials or local store specials. My radio will flash across the bottom. Now playing pink Floyd Money. Buy 3 tires get the 4th free at NTW.

Define "modern".

I rarely listen to the radio other than to get the traffic reports; virtually nothing else is worth my time on the radio.

Pink Floyd? What station actually plays music anymore?

This is one of the very few real uses I would have for internet in a car -- internet radio.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The idea has been out there for a couple of years.

So have eugenics laws,

[healey36]

If you have a modern radio that tells you what songs are playing. Watch it. It will flash up tire specials or local store specials. My radio will flash across the bottom. Now playing pink Floyd Money. Buy 3 tires get the 4th free at NTW.

Define "modern".

I rarely listen to the radio other than to get the traffic reports; virtually nothing else is worth my time on the radio.

Pink Floyd? What station actually plays music anymore?

This is one of the very few real uses I would have for internet in a car -- internet radio.

The only thing dumber than paying for TV is paying for radio...and that would be me (Sirius/XM). Nothing better than setting off on a 6.5 hour drive Upstate while listening to one of those 'back-of-the-rack' classic rock stations, Tom Petty radio, or Underground Garage. Then throw in Metropolitan Opera, the Golf Channel, Blue Collar Comedy...quite the assortment, Rufus...would be handy on those drives up to PA.

Healey