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Old 07-03-2010, 06:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
robchalmers
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How about a Race???

More like a rally really............

I was thinking after watching the X prize footage etc, punding round a track is all well and good but what about a sense of real world adventure?

How about an ECO-cannonball - New York to San Fran for example or London to Porto. At the speed lmit. but on the least fuel/energy

A datum car would set a boogie time for a given sector, so that if someone particularly slo in order to save fuel that could be judged and get a MPG Penality.

Each Car would have to have a fixed camera(to monitor traffic) a GPS tracker (to monitor speed and distance) and a fuel cap lock / monitor

Manufacturers get the 'speed/exitement' element and 'normos' get to see that High Mpg's are restricted to apparently boring cars.....

whos up for it?

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