The world is not as it should be. Things are upside down, backwards, and definitely off-kilter. How do we know this? Is it because the economy is as shaky as a 90-year old on a first date? Or because our president seems to think that giving speeches is all that’s required to get people employment? [...]
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Automotive X Prize Winners Announced
September 17th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen from FutureCars.com In brief: The long-anticipated results for the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition have been announced. The word At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., X Prize officials announced the winners of the hotly-contested Side-by-Side class as well as the foregone conclusion for the Mainstream category plus the fun Tandem category. Mainstream The Mainstream category [...]
The Beijing Straddle Bus?
September 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Here’s another of those ideas that’s great on paper, but will never survive in the real world. The Beijing Straddle Bus is a “super bus” that straddles over the top of roadways, moving up to 1,400 people at a time. This concept of urban public transportation comes from the Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment (they [...]
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Tags: Asia, Beijing, Bus, Public transport, Transportation and Logistics 
Comments OffEPA and DOT Propose New Dumbed-Down Labels
August 31st, 2010 Aaron Turpen Is reading a MPG number too hard for you? Not sure what to make of that pesky “miles per gallon” thing anymore? Unsure of what MPG really means now, what with all of today’s advanced technologies? Well it appears you’re not alone. There are a lot of people that aren’t exactly college material either, so [...]
Give That Kid an Eagle! Boy Scout Creates Lego X Prize Cars
August 2nd, 2010 Aaron Turpen A boy Scout named Jalen, of Raleigh, North Carolina, won a recent Progressive Automotive X Prize Competition for best Lego rendition of X Prize vehicles. His creations include a model of the Aptera 2e and the TW4XP. Check it:
It Turns Out My Favorite Car Sucks
May 6th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Well, I’m totally eating crow now. Consumer Reports is at the Michigan International Speedway watching the Automotive X Prize teams in their track trials. They’re the ones responsible for setting up the competitive track sports, since they’re obviously experts in safety and handling testing. Well, to boil it down, the Aptera did really, really, really [...]
