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Hope the Aptera safety testing comes back better than these older cars. Aptera and similar aerodynamic, (hopefully) inexpensive cars are really a nice middle gr

• bagels 5y ago
  Modern engineering and modern materials. Shouldn't be hard to do better in a crash than something designed before seat belts and crumple zones were implemented in cars.
  • capitainenemo 5y ago
    One warning is they deliberately chose 3 wheels to qualify as motorcycle and thus lower requirements (probably in interests of weight and to allow more innovative technologies - I remember design #1 had issues with wanting to use cameras instead of mirrors for more streamlining, but bikes had to have mirrors too, at least at the time). But, yeah, overall the design seems good and certainly far better than a typical 3 wheel motorbike.
• iSnow 5y ago
  https://sonomotors.com/ https://sonomotors.com/ - if they make it. I like their solar-augmented car, and it's not terribly expensive. But they need a lot of money to get the production started.
  • eliaspro 5y ago
    They just IPOed at Nasdaq and raked in €172.5 Million. This should hopefully help them to get a bit further towards production.