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Video: Glass Paint That Can Keep Structures Cool
Sunlight can be brutal. It wears down even the strongest structures, including rooftops and naval ships, and it heats up metal slides and bleachers until they’re too hot to use. To fend off damage and heat from the sun’s harsh rays, scientists have developed a new, environmentally friendly paint out of glass that bounces sunlight…
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Video: How Chicano Lowrider Culture Found a Home in Japan
In 1987, Junichi Shimodaira fell in love. He was visiting the United States for the first time when he spotted a car driving low and slow in Southern California. Steadily, Chicano car clubs—an outlet for cultural and political expression that dates back to the 1940s—won Junichi over. At his Paradise Road shop he repairs and…
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Video: Custom Car Painter Takahiko Izawa
Take one 1958 Chevy Impala, add an expert Japanese designer and an entirely new paint job, mix in intricately engraved bodywork…and you’ve got one of the world’s most stunning custom cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaDuxiInKo
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Video: Pascal’s Law
Physics simulations demonstrating Pascal’s Law and the hydraulic lift.
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Article: The Hyperloop and the Self-Driving Car Are Not the Future of Transportation
The Hyperloop and the Self-Driving Car Are Not the Future of Transportation. The bus, the bike, and the elevator are. https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/future-of-transportation-bus-bike-elevator.html
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Article: Runs in the Family
Española lowriders turn Good Friday into a family-friendly event. https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/runs-in-the-family/
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Article: How Lowriders Work
Multi part series on how Lowriders work by How Stuff Works. https://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/lowrider.htm
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Article: Creating the “Rob job”: Car painter Robert Vanderslice
When you’ve got etched, polished chrome exhaust pipes snaking down the length of your ride, a gold or silver grill, a sparkling engine, rims, hood ornaments, and hydraulics, you need a flashy paint job to go with it. You would be hard-pressed to find a painter with a reputation as solid as that of Albuquerque…
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Definition: Green vehicle
A green vehicle, clean vehicle, eco-friendly vehicle or environmentally friendly vehicle is a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles running on gasoline or diesel, or one that uses certain alternative fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_vehicle
