Originally published at: Behold this wooden version of the Tesla Cybertruck | Boing Boing
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Frankly, the wooden truck looks far better.
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And it looks like it may actually, ya know… run.
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I was hoping it would be a completely wooden vehicle like the WW2 Mosquito bomber, but it’s just a steel frame with plywood panels attached by magnets.
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I bet it wooden go very fast
Biy he really likes to install everything with a loud “clack” sound.
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My Dad was trying to buy one of those back in the 80s; but then we had a few odd cars over the years.
These are not our actual cars, but these are the brands.
The Bond Mini Car had a kickstarted engine.
The Wartburg had a large bonnet with a tiny engine, with so much room you could get in and partially close the bonnet to work on the engine out of the rain.
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How do magnets work? NOBODY KNOWS!!
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But Elmo is a super genius, engineer, visionary, highly educated, emerald mine trust fund baby who happened to be at the right place at the right time to develop, buy and/or fund tech created by himself and others.
His many successes can all be explained by his hard work and creative genus and not dumb luck.
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I was thinking: it’s more functional, too. Not just because it actually runs, but it’s a low-power vehicle that doesn’t require a massive battery, so it’s more the kind of electric vehicle the world needs, not the monstrously expensive tanks that are actually getting made for the Western market…
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True - you can burn it.
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hey now. teslas are known to burn quite well. and if this one burns it could be put by mere water
( fwiw: i hope it doesn’t. it’s a cool piece of art if nothing else )
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I recall the three wheelers
saw the bubble car at a bowling alley in bexleyheath
were henry coopers brother was hanging… just for the starlight…
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This. We need more public transport and more golf-cart sized vehicles. Instead what much of the world is doing is getting ever heavier, ever bulkier cars that add nothing to the equation but a much worse efficiency (think rocket equation which applies to vehicles as well: more weight → more fuel, more fuel → more weight) and increased risk for anybody outside these tanks that people claim are “absolutely indispensable to move my ass around” these days.
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