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HumanCar - street legal human powered car

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HumanCar - street legal human powered car @ Wired, NextFest, Treehugger and their site.

The FM-4 v1.0 HumanCar (Fully Manual 4 Passenger) 'geometry prototype' has been so successful that no changes have been required. Several downhill time trial runs have had the car above 60mph + with incredible handling and BodySteer characteristics. The steel tube space frame chassis features a bi-lateral human power interface and front passenger body-steering capabilities. The vehicle is also designed to follow transportation efficiency guidelines such as the SyncGuideway specification on the menu as well.
HumanCar, Inc. has been creating human powered vehicles for over 30 years. Our current vehicle is the first four-passenger LMV (Low Mass Vehicle) car ready for production.

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Posted by: ae on September 30, 2008 at 12:18 PM

Cool car!

...just don't put a side of dinosaur ribs on it or it'll tip over...

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Posted by: sdl on October 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM

master of the universe

that pic looks shopped.

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Posted by: Nigel Tolley on December 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM

Definitely photo-shopped. It's a rendering placed onto a picture of a field. Look closely at teh grass under the wheels, and it's not even scaled right!

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