number5 wrote:
What a shame. Looked like a nice little ride.
I hope people won't be dusting off solar panels lost in a basement 50 years from now.
How much would it actually cost, to build one?
That said I think Reagan chose a bad advisor/cabinet member. If you study President Reagan's leadership style he delegated a lot.
Then-NHTSA chief Jerry Curry contended the vehicles were obsolete, and that anyone who could have learned something from them had done so by then. Claybrook, the NHTSA chief who'd overseen the RSV cars through 1980, told Congress the destruction compared to the Nazis burning books.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40281199/ns ... of_energy/
I disagree with the assessment of equating it to Nazi book burning though. It does look like that NHTSA chief that made the assessment was either a moron that Reagan should never have hired. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the blueprints to this car is still filed somewhere, while I don't think this car would be able to be bought by most Americans, the concepts from this car could be applied to new designs.
23 Nov 2010, 8:56 am
