Is his idea that they open the side of your car door and stick a whole new tank in there?
You don’t need to put the tank in the door to do that…
Gas stations are…already a drive-thru?
…?!!
This isn’t even one of those sounds good on paper ideas.
I mentioned elsewhere that AI is really making people tell on themselves, in terms of how smart they are and how they see the world. It’s handy.
Hunter here thinks that a piece of real-ish looking conceptual illustration is all it takes to prove that something is a viable concept. It’s like watching a mecha anime and wondering why we haven’t got our shit together to construct building-sized robots.
Well, just like any other idea that would definitely lead to fewer carholes in existence…I’m in favor of it.
We should put electric motors on sunken door handles with plastic gears to achieve 0.01% more efficiency.
Bonus: they stay safely locked in an accident because you should not trust EMTs with your valuables.
People are acting like these will just explode the moment an impact happens.
It would just pop and leak all the gas onto the ground and into waterways. This is a terrible idea for many reasons, but acting like it would increase car related deaths is sort of silly.
This is such a bad take, it would absolutely explode. Car gasoline is so flammable, especially on a hot day when the tank is full of vapor.
If this got T-boned it would pop like a balloon and throw a cloud of highly flammable fluid into the air. Not to mention all the sparks from the collision providing and excellent ignition source.
Gasoline vapor requires a certain mixture of vapor and air to ignite/explode. The tank would not only need to be practically empty (which if you aren’t aware, you shouldn’t be letting your gas tank get to almost empty - it’s not just unsafe it’s bad for the car), it would need to immediately be exposed to some kind of ignition source. Sparks would require metal grinding on metal, which typically isn’t happening in a T-bone unless it’s a really bad T-bone. Not to mention, if the gas tank isn’t mostly empty - the amount of force required to vaporize the gasoline is actually insane and simply not realistic. I haven’t done the math on it but we’re talking melt the car door amounts of kinetic energy which… yeah an explosion is not just guaranteed but the least of your concerns.
It would certainly make fires more likely, again I’m not arguing that this is a good idea - this is certainly a bad idea. But it would not make explosions more likely.
The bigger threat is fuel leaking onto you in an accident. You’re now riding with the gas tank next to you and above your lap compare to behind you and below you. Most cars burn down from fuel leakage in an accident.
I think a fire is a much more realistic worry than an explosion, for sure.
It would slosh around every time you open the door
I can’t believe I need to state the obvious here, but this is over and above all of the other extremely valid objections already raised by others vis-a-vis turning the door you sit right next to into an ersatz Molotov cocktail that weighs an extra fifty pounds.
How is this going to help gas stations become drive “thru?” (I see we still also haven’t learned how to spell “through.”) It’s going to allow the gas station to do what, exactly, stick a nozzle in the side of your car?
That’s already how filling a modern car with fuel works.
(Yes, I specified modern because otherwise at least one pedantic nerd is going to go “well acktshully” and mention any of the various cars from the '60s and '70s which had the filler hidden behind the license plate or brake light or an emblem on the trunk lid or whatever. We already know. Nobody cares.)
Also, a door that weighs that much more is going to be fun on any ground that’s not perfectly level.
And it can slosh. I’m sure that won’t come into play at all when trying to open and close it.
How is this going to help gas stations become drive “thru?” (I see we still also haven’t learned how to spell “through.”) It’s going to allow the gas station to do what, exactly, stick a nozzle in the side of your car?
“We need to put mid air refueling rigs on gasoline tankers on the highway” -Elmo Muks.
Ever see footage of what this looks like from the cockpit? Fuel. Everywhere. The highway would be a gas-stinking oil-slick 24/7.
Also, Musk?! You’d think he’d jump at the chance to promote Tesla instead of spewing pulled-from-ass gas car concepts.
He’s too late, Top Gear already did it anyway.
Ok this gave me a good chuckle. I then thought “ oh but you could make it so gas station attendants just stand/sit outside and fill up cars as they come “ but then I realized this would also be possible today, and I started laughing even harder. Besides ensuring that every little fender bender ends in painful death, there’s literally 0 purpose to this.
And you can still realize your dream right now by moving to New Jersey. But then you’d be dreaming in New Jersey.
Hate to break it to you, but both “drive-through” and “drive-thru” are considered correct.
Wikipedia refers to “A drive-through or drive-thru (a sensational spelling of the word through)…”
As explained on Erin Wright Writing, “According to our primary American-English dictionaries (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language), drive-through is the preferred spelling, while drive-thru is an accepted informal variant. However, the use of drive-thru has become so common that using drive-through now feels incorrect.”
Also keep in mind this is Xitter, where abbreviations are are a normalized (often necessary) part of the lingo.
English: drive-through
Murican: drive-thruNow about light…
English (Traditional), English (Simplified).
Murican Drive-through:
My driveway is at a T-in the road. it’s only a matter of time
You have large rocks or anything to stop this?
- The HOA would not abide.
- large rocks in my driveway would keep me from getting in my driveway
my best option would be to petition the HOA to allow me to install https://www.drivewaybollards.ca/
i doubt that would fly
You put the large rocks in the front yard, with an island and plants around them. For the driveway, if it’s a road-facing garage, your car should block that. If you don’t put the car in the garage, leaving the car ramps or blocks you use to change your oil against the garage door should be fine.
Nah, this is the pinnacle of murican drive-thrus
Thank you! Yeah, this is all downsides for no upside. It’s like saying if I want to stop having my legs show I can wear body paint instead of pants. Like, pants are already doing the proposed goal better than the paint will, and it’s all downhill from there.
Pinto door. Also the filler is on the side already
My exact thought. New Jersey already has gas stations as drive-thrus by default!
It’s advertising my Millennial Retirement Plan.
D-AI-rwin awards?
Hi, my name is Pinto Jr.
Bmp-2 moment
Better under the seats, it has a better weight distribution, better with hydrogen for more ecology. Can provide occasional orbital experiences.
An idea like this, assuming it’s not ragebait, would probably never leave the confines of this person’s imagination and the AI’s chat history. By the time you get to the point where you would send a design over to a fabrication shop, there would be too much skin in the game for somebody to not speak up about how dumb it is.
But most people like the smell of gasoline, they’ll love being showered in when they get t-boned at an intersection.
A copper shower?
Well i guess they add colorants now.
This is rage bait, right? Right?!
