Stranger: Day 1 additions

Just thinking about a couple of neat things on Day 1 I had forgot to mention.

When we pulled up to Google the first thing we saw was a flying car, or rather a “drivable aircraft”, as the maker Terrafugia prefer to call it. That’s my friend John Gilbey (Welsh science writer & photographer) in the foreground with the back pack.

And then after registration, there were two electric cars in front of Google (for most of the weekend, actually):

One was Larry Page’s Tesla and the Indy-style car is a Wrightspeed X1 prototype.

In recent track testing, on street tires, it achieved the following performance:
0-30 mph: 1.35 sec
0-60 mph: 3.07 sec in 117 ft
0-100 mph: 6.87 sec
0-100-0 mph 11.2 sec
Lateral g: 1.3
Braking g: 1.2

Pretty neat!