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Low rolling-resistance tires are an obvious solution, but the ones that are really good at it suck when it comes to braking and turning... so much so, that several reviews have concluded that they are unsafe at any speed.

Well, we have automatically adjusting suspension, these days, so I propose automatically adjusting tires.

A larger planet with the same mass is the next best solution.

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I'd shuffle the letters so they spell BACONRAGE

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Dey tuk er jerbs!!

This one.

Remember, inertia is there regardless of gravity. So if you reduce gravity and keep the same mass, your cars handling will just get worse, since gravity produces the normal force on your tires, which provides lateral traction. No gravity, no lateral traction. Less gravity, less lateral traction - but the same inertia.

Gravity helps cars. Mass hurts cars.

Modified by gsrroger at 5:02 AM 11-7-2009

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Along that line of thought, superfluids and Bose-Einstein Condensates are gases at very low temperatures whose particles magically(not really, I'm just not that educated in this stuff) become Bosons- particles that don't follow our laws of thermodynamics.

A Bose-Einstein Condensate has a viscosity of 0 and thus can 'move' without expending energy. 1L of a condensate (although that's much more than has been made) poured into a glass cup would flow through the cup instantly since bosons can all occupy the same space at the same time. They have no friction and thus can be spun inside something like a donut or disc with a hollow interior up to speeds that would allow it's mass to have an effect on what we call gravity.

Scientists at Harvard and CSU are already working on projects related to this. A Harvard team manage to slow down a beam of light from a laser down to 17m/s using a BEC.

That sounds pretty miraculous. I could see someday superconductors being used for railways or other "permanent" infrastructures, but BEC sounds as if it would be much more mobile.

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If you reduce the mass of the earth, then the effect of gravity will be less.

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duhhh he said BESIDES lighter than air gases!

perhaps attaching a giant blower to the undercarriage of your car to help push it off the ground, mounting 4x1.8T off some mkiv's to help boost it will increase the lift off ratio.

Don't ever change, JM.

FTFY

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When they figure out one day how to make cars out of nanotubes, they'll be a fraction of the weight they are now. Which means their performance right now is a fraction of what it will be then.

But yeah...gravity is not a bad thing. In fact, racing teams go out of their way to INCREASE the effects of gravity by putting wings, diffusers, fans, spoilers, etc. on their cars, many of which have either been outright banned or severely curbed.

What you don't want is mass, for which the best solution is, as per my original answer, less mass.

But you are adding aero drag to lift the car. You are just swapping friction drag for aero drag, and making the vehicle very unstable to boot.

I say glass.
As in let's find a better material to use for vehicle windows, one that is significantly lighter, shatter resistant and scratch resistant. I know it can be done.

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Don't ever change, JM.

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Hence, tire squeal.

in the other thread... which will forever change what I think and feel when going around corners, enthusiastically.

Modified by feels_road at 12:55 AM 11-8-2009

VW EV, plug-in Hybrid, and/or 1.4-2.0 VVT&VVL T/dual-charged FSI engines for the US would be useful...