In the last few days, I have been thinking about the future of cars. Two items have popped up lately that have prompted my pondering: the submarine car and a toy radio controlled car that can climb walls. If you have not seen the video of the submarine car, you should ( http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&tab=m1228&vid=ab6f15bb-80c7-48b0-a82c-5a917cf3f296&from=06/64 ) and then click the back button and read what I have to say or don't watch it and read on. The cool thing about the sub-car is not just the fact that you can drive it under water but also, the reality that on the touch of a button it can drive without further human input to your location avoiding obstacles (like people crossing the road), and pick you up, like batman's car. While it is cool that the car can be driven along the floor of your local pond, I find it really odd that the car designers chose to make the car a convertible. One problem with making this car a convertible is that you are going to get soaking wet and really dirty in most places and even if it is waterproof, your car is going to be filthy too. I bet that might limit the number attractive dates that would want to ride in your car. Another obvious problem with making this car a convertible is that in many underwater environments there are small critters, like leeches, medium to large critters, like snakes, and larger critters, like alligators, that may now consider you an easier target. My advice, make the next submarine car fully enclosed and we will talk prices. A more useful car development is a vaccum system that has been added to some radio controlled toy cars. This system senses when it is needed and only turns on at those times. This car ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Airhogs-Zero-Gravity-Real-Climber/dp/B0007WWYRI ) is designed to climb walls, which might be cool to add to a full sized real cars but, that is not what I was thinking when I read about the toy. I was thinking about the number of people that have died or been seriously injured in SUV rollover accidents. Someone should figure out how to add this toy car feature to SUVs and program it to activate when the SUV starts to tip.
