Bill Lear was a genius. Of all his different inventions the one that interested me the most was his attempt to invent and launch a steam powered car. Starting

Bill Lear was a genius. Of all his different inventions the one that interested me the most was his attempt to invent and launch a steam powered car. Starting in 1969 he tried for ten years and spent untold millions of his fortune. In the end though he had successes (a SF city bus) but he couldn't make the car work. I had a conversation with an automotive engineer who was privy to the details who said if they'd had an inexpensive computer he thinks that they might have pulled it off. There were too many moving parts to control with analog technology. Yet Lear's high profile failure scared off anyone from trying again to obsolete gas powered vehicles. That is until Martin Eberhardt and Marc Tarpenning came along and reinvented the electric car. https://driventowrite.com/2015/12/02/lear-steam-car/ https://driventowrite.com/2015/12/02/lear-steam-car/