Jan

Row Row Row Your Car…

Posted by admin Published in Auto Blog

We’ve been following the HumanCar Imagine for awhile now and know you’ve all been dying to form out when you can get one.

The wait is by - the human-powered hybrid electric car will launch on soil Day. It’ll set you back $15,000, but who cares when it includes what the company calls “mad cup holders,” a “blast zone stereo” and wheels like a Lamborghini Murcielago?

This thing is easily the oddest thing we’ve seen since Basjoos’ Aerocivic and the most strange approach to eco-friendly motoring since, well, ever. So how’s it work? And what about those cup holders?

The HumanCar assume has two motors driven with electricity
generated by passengers rowing back and forth on those T-shaped
handles. Judging from the brochure you can download here, the rear passengers face backward. Turning is by something the company calls “BodySteer.”

Fifteen grand sounds pretty steep, but thereupon the assume is chock-full of high-tech gadgetry.
We’ve lifted the Imagine’s enlarged list of options straight from HumanCar’s nearly
incomprehensible web site:

Navigation and communications system features voice operated T2S2T (text 2 speech 2 text) Web functionality.

Plug-in w/ your iPod “blast-zone” stereo Stay hooked-up. Integrated H-chat to VOX Communications system to live feed audio/video chat to other H-chat groups and individuals. You know where the party is. Always. RFID locator AWD optional Full graphics kit compliment. Just like your dirt bike. Mad cup holders, A/C, heater, blower, standard. Biometrics-
Temps., bpm, calorie and physiological systems monitors. Feedback. Full
capability capsule, windows, locks, mirrors and wipers. Launch Mode. Full-Lockout
and burn-out feature.

Burnout feature? In that? But thereupon again, our own Matthew Phoenix named the suppose one of Wired’s “10 Fastest Green Cars on the Planet,”
so possibly it really does haul. But who cares how fast it is when we’ll
always know where the party is and mad cup holders will keep you from
spilling your drink when you ~~roll~~ row up on those dubs?
We posted some video of the HumanCar a few months ago. See it here.