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Post for a trucker.
Love the ideas.
My thoughts are an inflatable accorridan, with vinyl flap scales on the outside. Make it look cool (?reflective material, lights?) truckers will buy it.
Peterbuilt made a model based on the NASA picture displayed in this thread and it did get 10 mpg before computer controlled injectors, but fuel was a buck .xxx and no one bought the truck, and after a number of years the model was dropped.
Sitting ontop of a hot and loud diesel engine with cramped space and the prospect of an exploding turbocharger coming into the cabin made the NASA cabover unpopular. But if all those issues were addressed & the space saved by not having a hood was put to good use, such as a greatly expanded sleeper cab, this NASA configured cab-over would be popular.
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