Technology which never made it

[504GL]

Was watching How It's Made today and saw this

 

 

I'd previously only read about it. But I saw this feature today and though it was interesting. Any other interesting bits of automotive technology which just never made it?

[cms206]

 

Don't think it went much further than the drawing board... ?!

[504GL]

Took me a while to realise that it was a joke

[M'coli]

There was an experimental Triumph 200/2500 estate with the Stag engine that also had Fergusson 4wd and an auto-dipping main beam. The 4wd made it, but the auto-dipping main beam didn't at the time.

[RoadworkUK]

Was watching How It's Made today and saw this

 

 

"...The guy has no lips....His teeth are just connected to his forehead......wow, I did'nt know that was possible"

 

One of the better Youtube comments I've ever read.

[CreepingJesus]

The super special sheet magnesium motorbike frame, I designed and stress tested on Autocad, in Robert Gordon's cad lab, over several weeks in '93. Would've been good, if I could've found anyone with deep enough pockets to let me try it for real. It used a small amount of NASA technology...

[M'coli]

The super special sheet magnesium motorbike frame, I designed and stress tested on Autocad, in Robert Gordon's cad lab, over several weeks in '93. Would've been good, if I could've found anyone with deep enough pockets to let me try it for real. It used a small amount of NASA technology...

Was it still Bob GIT then, or Bob GUni?

[CreepingJesus]

'Twas the first or second (iirc) year of it being 'The Robert Gordon University'. Or 'The University of Royal Deeside'*, as we often signed into Aberdeen Uni's union...

 

*Which legend had it, the board paid an 'image consultant' a quarter of a mil to devise...

[autofive]

http://cobbsblog.com/gyro/gyro-x-menu.html

 

this is certainly a weird one

[Pete-M]

[Station]

Wasn't the G-Lader charger thingy something that didn't really get accepted?

 

PPC used (or still have) a section called 'Wasn't made here' which have crazy inventions, usually German.