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Bumper cars in Kerava, Finland, powered by pole-mounted contact shoes that supply power from a conductive ceiling. Bumper cars or dodgems are the generic names for a type of flat amusement ride consisting of multiple small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator.
The bumper cars sat in their own shadows. Despite a series of renovations several years ago, the park still had a bygone, musty air. ... The park has long seemed one bad step away from total ...
Chrome plated front bumper on a 1958 Ford Taunus Rear bumper with integrated tail lamps and a rubber-faced guard on a 1970 AMC Ambassador. A bumper is a structure attached to or integrated with the front and rear ends of a motor vehicle, to absorb impact in a minor collision, ideally minimizing repair costs. [1]
Bumper boats are similar in concept to the much older and more ubiquitous bumper cars. Like bumper boats, the point of bumper cars is to collide with other cars. Bumper cars date to the early 1920s. Bumper car collisions tend to be more jarring than bumper boats. [1] Arrow Development Company, later known as Arrow Dynamics, was the original ...
Regulations affecting bumper design in the late 1970s saw the increasing use of soft plastic materials on the front and rear of vehicles. Fascia was adopted then as the term to describe these soft areas, [4] but is now increasingly used as a general term for a car's set of front-end components: grille, headlamps, front bumper, and other details ...
Sinclair chose to rely on existing lead–acid battery technology, avoiding the great expense of developing a more efficient type. His rationale was that if the electric vehicle market took off, battery manufacturers would step up to develop better batteries. [19] Wood Rogers recalls: We were stuck with the standard technology of the time.
Car Talk has rated it the "worst car of the millennium", and many car magazines and TV shows rate it as the worst car of the 1980s and also one of the worst cars ever made. Despite the very low price setting in the U.S. (with Yugo being the cheapest new car ever sold in the U.S. when adjusted for inflation), it was ridiculed for the overall ...
Given the options available to Peterson and other addicts mid-century, it’s easy to see why Narcotics Anonymous — founded in 1953 as an offshoot of Alcoholics Anonymous — became such a success. The philosophy of AA co-founder Bill Wilson, also known as Bill W., a former Wall Street analyst and a recovering alcoholic, offered empathy and ...