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Have a look at the video here about solar powered cars.

Perhaps not practical in our latitudes but who knows.

They appear to be dangerous. You have to wear a crash helmet when you're inside.

woodburner wrote:They appear to be dangerous. You have to wear a crash helmet when you're inside.

Bit like a bike then.

Doh, bikes have TWO wheels.

Yeah, but bikes are up there with the safest forms of transport possible, one wheel, two, whatever.

Cars are the opposite - the most dangerous form, on many levels - yet users of them and most of their collateral victims wear no protection whatsoever.

Silly discussion really.

Two cyclists hit (presumably head -on) in Cambridge this week, One suffered life-threatening injuries, the other serious injuries.

One at least was almost certainly cycling through a red light. It is possible to kill yourself and others using any mode of transport if you try hard enough.

RalphW wrote:It is possible to kill yourself and others using any mode of transport if you try hard enough.

Oh, absolutely. Deaths from donkey riding are surprisingly common.

Space flight is probably the 'safest' form of transport, in terms of kilometres travelled per death.

Cars are quite possibly the least safe. You know, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, all the rest, for instance.

emordnilap wrote: Space flight is probably the 'safest' form of transport, in terms of kilometres travelled per death.

Space flight is rubbish. You take off from a place miles from home, go to the middle of nowhere and they land you in a desert nowhere near where you started.

biffvernon wrote:You take off from a place miles from home, go to the middle of nowhere and they land you in a desert nowhere near where you started.

Ah yes, the Humber bridge.