>>>>>I want one of these.
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http://www.hightechscience.org/sparrow.htm>>>>
>>>>Just shows you that there's "nothing new under the sun". There used toi be loads of this ilk on the orads of the UK back in the 50s/60s - Messerschmidt post-war production, for example:
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http://www.microcarmuseum.com/info.html>>>
>>>Yepper. The sparrows are all electirc though. Corbin is no longer making them and the guys that bought them out (Meyers Motors???) - well they're selling the darn things for $40,000 or something insane like that. I keep my eyes open for a used one. The gas ones like the old Messerschmidt have the advantage of being able to go more than 60 miles without having to park/charge the the thing for 2 hours though.
>>>Having something like that here in the USA is probably dangerous though, some bozo in a Hummer (getting like 3 feet to the gallon) would probably plow you over.
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>>You think!? How about our very own genius's Clive Sinclair's C5 (of the ZX80)? It never caught on. I wonder why? this was part electric/part pedal power. See:
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http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/vehicles/c5.htm>>
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>He had one of my favorite quotes of the microcomputer era. The latest version of the Sinclair PC came out with an 8 bit processor at about the same time IBM came out with its first PC, with the then-new Intel 16 bit processor. He was asked why he went with an 8 bit chip. "Because I couldn't find a 4 bit chip I liked," he said.
Sound a bit like Logie-Baird insisting on sticking with his revolving disc TV system. :-)
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