stackyFACTSThose incredibly cool folding headlights that flipped up out of the hood were aerodynamic nightmares. You were basically deploying tiny wind-blocking sails every time it got dark outside.
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Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion" car looked like a blimp, sat 11 people, and got 30 miles to the gallon in 1933. Unfortunately, because it steered entirely…
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That sleekly painted panel spanning the front of your car provides absolutely zero structural integrity in a real collision. The actual heavy impact bar is…
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In most four-door cars, the rear windows refuse to roll down all the way. It’s totally not a child safety feature.
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Why do modern, high-tech vehicles actually have significantly worse visual blind spots than older cars from the 90s?
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Those slim plastic bins at the bottom of the door panel are impossible to actually clean out. They exist solely to trap forgotten wrappers, mysterious crumbs,…
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