The Ultimate Show Off Car - Can Self Drive & Go Underwater
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Rinspeed will present its new sQuba, the worlds first diving car, at the Geneva Motor Show (March 6-16).
The car is not only able to drive on roads autonomously with a push of a button (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance), but can also transform into an amphibious vehicle which can be submerged in water up to 10 meters (33 feet). An electric motor with powerful torque drives the rear wheels, while the propulsion on the water is ensured by two propellers in the stern and two powerful jet drives in the bow propelling the vehicle under water while diving. When underwater, the driver and passenger are enclosed in the vehicle thanks to light weight body components made of futuristic Carbon Nano Tubes and are supplied with fresh breathing air by the self-contained on-board system.
Rinspeed will present its new sQuba, the worlds first diving car, at the Geneva Motor Show (March 6-16).
The car is not only able to drive on roads autonomously with a push of a button (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance), but can also transform into an amphibious vehicle which can be submerged in water up to 10 meters (33 feet). An electric motor with powerful torque drives the rear wheels, while the propulsion on the water is ensured by two propellers in the stern and two powerful jet drives in the bow propelling the vehicle under water while diving. When underwater, the driver and passenger are enclosed in the vehicle thanks to light weight body components made of futuristic Carbon Nano Tubes and are supplied with fresh breathing air by the self-contained on-board system.
-Can't wait to see Top Gear 'review' this baby.
Then again, the Swiss might not give it to them; they'd most likely wreck it. And yeah, Fifth Gear aren't a proper motoring programme (they had this on their first episode this season).
Also note, electric car = zero emissions.
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*wheels
And EDD, Fifth Gear isn't a proper motoring program.
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Ya, ya, I know where it's being filmed at. Sheesh. Get a sense of humour.