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Point of fact, "that Dyson" is Freeman Dyson

• shawkinaw 9y ago
  I was going to say the poultry brand ... now _that_ would have been surprising.
  • weberc2 9y ago
    Tyson?
    • DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
      I can see Tyson launching their own line of cars. Their farms and processing/packing facilities are huge - so it stands to reason they would have their own internal intra-site transportation departments that would devise ways of moving people around for the greatest efficiency - and if they decided the company and its shareholders would be better-off with their own self-made line of electric cars for moving people (and chickens) around their farms and abattoirs - and if they discovered it would be profitable to sell these vehicles to the public too - then more power to them! I for one, look forward to driving a Tyson Chickenmobile - it sure beats the OscarMayer Wienermobile![1] [1]: http://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile http://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile
• colechristensen 9y ago
  Because it's ambiguous, Freeman Dyson the physicist who has many things named after him, has (as far as I can tell) nothing at all to do with James Dyson who is the guy with the vacuum cleaner and now car company. If you know much about science, "that Dyson" is Freeman, if you don't, it's James or his company.
  • Girlang 9y ago
    I know a lot about Science, but I'm not autistic so I knew which Dyson manufactures things, and I wasn't compelled to tell everyone on HN how smart I am.
  • vixen99 9y ago
    I think some of us suspected that a man in his nineties might not be in the business of making electric cars.
• js2 9y ago
  Not the BBC's headline. Title here should be corrected to "Dyson to make electric cars from 2020"