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Some people think we buy cars that look like us, but if your next car is made from fruit, that won’t be the case. Hopefully it won’t be a lemon, but it COULD be a pineapple or a banana. And that plastic bottle you’re drinking out of could turn out to be made out of meat scraps.
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Some new cars have special problems, including animal invasions. For instance, Mazda has had to recall 65,000 new cars because of an infestation of spiders in the hoses leading to their gas tanks.read more

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Over the years, we’ve written about many other places to get fuel than out of the ground (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). How about out of the air? It turns out that car fuel can be created from the air using an enzyme found in common soil.
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The only safe way? – Cars don’t cause auto accidents–drivers do, which is why the ultimate goal of some engineers is to create cars that don’t need drivers. And if you’re the pedestrian and one of these vehicles hits you, you’re more likely to die if you don’t have insurance.

A team of driverless cars took a 3-month journey from Europe to China. The result, according to PhysOrg.com, was “a pair of fender-benders, two technology-loving hitchhikers and 22 hours blocked at the Russian border.” The vehicles were controlled by a group of engineers stationed in Italy, in the same way that US drone war planes are flown by remote control from long distances away.
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