Street-legal jet powered VW Beatle? In California!?

[The Mad Monk]

http://www.ourlighterside.com/stuff/engineer/

This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible. With this project, I was able to use some stuff I learned while getting my fancy engineering degree (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) to design the car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past - because no one has. I don't know how fast the car will go and probably never will.

The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn't stop me from the occasional blast

[Winston]

Yeah right.

It's quite obvious to me that the car isn't moving in that picture. He even has the brakes on, and is clearly in some sort of parking lot thingy.

[The Mad Monk]

What was lightening the image supposed to accomplish?

[chequita guevara]

He does use the jet engine very early in the morning, when no o0ne else is out on the highway. However, he is stopped for the photo.

He entered it in a competition and was banned for life after turning on the afterburner, as it set a stage on fire or something.

[Winston]

Enabling a better view of the surroundings, the driver with his crash helmet on. Basically, to see what is going on. Does it look like it's moving to you?

[chequita guevara]

Jay Leno has a jet engine on one of his motocycles.

[Winston]

And a band that goes "Ta-da" every time he fires it.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Winston
Enabling a better view of the surroundings, the driver with his crash helmet on. Basically, to see what is going on. Does it look like it's moving to you?

That's crystal clear in the original photo. Increasing brightness without increasing contrast tends to hide detail, not enhance it.

[Winston]

But then I didn't increase brightness, I adjusted the Gamma-value upwards.

Nothing much was crystal clear in the original picture IMO.

[snoopy369]

Increasing the gamma value increases brightness... that's the point of gamma...

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Winston
Nothing much was crystal clear in the original picture IMO.

Thanks
the lightened pic is better, imho, to see what is going on.

[Vince278]

Reminded me of the old Bat Mobile. I'd like to have one for those pesky tailgaters.

[Qilue]

What exactly was the point of lightening the original image?

Any reasonably observant person would see that there is no movement blur in the image and the brake lights are on.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Winston
And a band that goes "Ta-da" every time he fires it.

[BeBMan]

I thought it's an MiB thing