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> Cars now are "just" faster and have a few more doohickeys on them Good example! What part of this statement is false? Oh yeah, the "faster."
by asciilifeform 17y ago
> Cars now are "just" faster and have a few more doohickeys on them
Good example! What part of this statement is false? Oh yeah, the "faster."
- timf 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_production_car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_production_car (these pages actually lead to some great wikipedia tangents, thanks for landing me there ;-))
- asciilifeform 17y agoForget land speed records. My point was that 1920s cars would be perfectly adequate at maintaining the maximum legal speed on nearly any modern US road. And mileage has scarcely improved at all.