Couldn't you just see Craig McClain Driving this thing--hair flowing in the current--with Kevin riding shotgun and Peter asleep in the back seat? From the "You Just Can't Make This Shit Up Department" comes the sQuba car, a fully submersible concept car developed by a firm called Rinspeed.
"For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly underwater," says Frank Rinderknecht, Rinspeed's 52-year-old CEO who apparently sees a 30-year investment in underwater cars somehow more validating than, say, solving world hunger? Literacy? Alternative energy terrestrial cars, maybe? "Now we have made this dream come true." Well done, Herr Rinderknecht. The car will be unveiled at next month's Geneva Auto Show.Working with engineering specialists, Rinspeed removed the combustion engine from a sports car and replaced it with several electrical motors. Three are located in the rear, with one providing propulsion on land and the other driving the screw for underwater motoring. Passengers will be able to breath underwater through an integrated tank of compressed air similar to what is used in scuba diving.
As if boat groundings on coral reefs wasn't bad enough, now we can expect underwater collisions from drunk sQuba drivers? And how long will it be before we have the first hit and run when sQuba meets SCUBA? With yesterday's announcement that 40% of the world's oceans are heavily impacted by human activity, why are we so intent on blithely upping that percentage?
3 comments:
What an idiot. Wow, people really have their heads buried way down deep in the sand/plastic particles, don't they?
My first thought was : decompression stops. If this car goes up and down quickly, it might kill a few idiots.
No, actually this brilliant! When we waste away the earth above the water line we'll be able to continue are stupid unsustainable lifestyles in undersea settlements!
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