h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: An Overview of the GM Hy-wire Car - A1143505
Author: Ashley Stewart-Noble - Working One Day a Week on h2g2 - U276

I wrote this for the Book of the Future and in the caring sharing spirit of DNA, I thought I would submit it for the Edited Guide.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive entry - it is far too technical so I have provided links for those who want a little more info.

Cheers for now

Ashley

I agree that it's very technical, and I didn't understand much of it. Could you explain a little more in the entry? I'm being lazy, and I don't want to have to click more links to understand.

I do think that I'd prefer the traditional mirrors though. Cameras and screens can fail, or am I being too much of a pessimist?

Don't you two sit in the same office?

I understood it fine but then again - I'm male

Yes we do, but I was using PR in the way that it was intended.

You aren't now

I have a little tweak of the terms...

I'm not a petrol-head, I don't even drive so I think if I can get it, I hope others can...

Nice one, Ashley! It's nice to know that the technology is out there... maybe I can naively cling to the belief that one day this sort of thing will make fighting wars over oil pointless. Of course, they'll only find something else to fight about...

Anyway, to the entry and my usual pedantic helpfulness:
>$5 million dollars of unrivalled technology fusing hydrogen fuel cell propulsion and by-wire technology - you do mean by-wire there and not hy-wire? i have little idea what either term really means, but if *is* by-wire you mean, perhaps a quick footnote would throw a little light on the subject - it sticks out as being a different term to the rest of the entry.

>This chassis contains the fuel cell (which can generate 94kW) - do you have a translation from kW into the more traditional motoring term of bhp?

>you twist to accelerate and squeeze to break - brake?

>The Hy-wire may cost the GDP of a small Home County now - I know what you're getting at, but pedantically counties don't really have GDP, do they? How about something like 'cost the same as a Premier League footballer'? Or, as Les Dawson would suggest, one of your own...

>Even now there are those that prefer diesel to unleaded - is that the right way round? are you contrasting the two in terms of performance, or environmental impact?

>The noise will be louder than the screeching tyres on a Robin Reliant - you mean 'Reliant Robin', I think.

Look forward to seeing this in the EG.

Thank you for that sir - they've all been fixed

Technically of course, Robins *don't* make screaching noises- it's the bigger engined Realtos that do that. To point that out would show too much knowledge of Reliants though, so I won't.

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Well lucky old you Ashley

More nerdy entries in the EG, that's what we like to see

Ach - I'm wounded!

Sorry, but nerdy is the only way to describe this entry. It's not even geeky.

I'm editing this entry at A1151713, but you gave me the batch so I guess you already know that...?

Feel free to drop in and shout at me for ruining your masterpiece!

One question - I don't understand what the significance of the footnote 'The Lexus LS430 weighs in at 2350kg (5170lbs).' is - why are you comparing it to *that* car?

The reason I chose that car is because it is a simalr size and shape... I think

Okay, I'll put that in by way of explanation.

Thank you

Well, I think it's about ready, anything to say before I send it back?

Speak now or forever hold your peace...

Anything to say before it goes back?