A team of Iranian designers come up with this bright cooking idea which actually isn’t as disgusting as it first looks. Your car’s exhaust is used as a barbecue to grill your food! Yeah! Those still sounds bad, but consider that the fumes don’t come into contact with the burger; the exhaust just heats the metal grill.
There are lots of ways to use your car for cooking, jiffy pop on the intake, plug in microwaves, and now burgers from your exhaust. Although we’re not quite sure if exhaust fumes qualify as char-broiling, the debate of the nuances of diesel versus gasoline flavoring has caused somewhat of a stir.
Even though this may be an idea prior to its time, as certainly exhaust fumes don’t carry the nicest of chemicals. You might consider holding off ’till hydrogen-powered cars become more practical and this device becomes a steamer instead of a smoker. At least that way your vegetables won’t take on a funky flavor.
The device works simply by attaching it to your exhaust pipe and driving around. This of course, could lead to a line of hungry drivers following you around in search of the nearest burger joint. No word yet if a version for cooking fries or baked potatoes is available for those of us with dual exhausts.
So, stop the car when you are hungry, install the device to the exhaust and back to drive, you’ll have a hamburger in no time. This way you don't need fuel for cooking while commuting and a large amount of energy would be saved.
Source: inventorspot.com
Kramer and a car salesman vow to drive a Saab 900 "into the slash" just to see what would happen, in an episode of "Seinfeld," Kramer said he had made it once but blacked out and wakes up in a dike with a full tank of gas. At this time there is a website that would have benefited from Kramer's experiment. Tank On Empty is collecting stories and experiences of how far each model of car can go past the slash before running out of fuel.
Well, so let's say you drive a Dodge Intrepid. Based on the Tank on Empty, the most mileage after the low-fuel light has come on is claimed to be 99. The smallest amount is zero and the average is 36.4. Unluckily, there are no distinctions made for any difference in engines, model years, options or geographical location. And, it turns out, 99 is the most miles users are acceptable to enter and drivers are not required to push their cars until they're dry.
The Tank on Empty site has a good idea trying to compile this kind of data. But it's fatally faulty methodology offers results that are, unfortunately, completely worthless.
As a replacement for light, what we need is to go back to the system Volkswagen once used. Until 1962, VW Beetles didn't have a fuel gauge. Instead, when your car's tank ran empty and sputtered to a stop, you flipped a lever that activated a small fuel reserve that would hopefully give you time to find a place to refuel. Classic VW owners fast learned how to calculate their remaining travel time.
Source: tankonempty.com and wikipedia.org
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