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I see your GE HTRE-3 and raise you a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon



This was never serious. Technical writing e.g. in textbooks in the 1950s explain that a nuclear-power car is 'not within the bounds of reality'.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003994194&vi...


Today, we have nuclear powered cars on Mars.

And with their amazingly powerful (checks notes) 0.13hp engine, you'll have plenty of time to admire the view.


Hey, don't knock it, the West was won on 1hp.


Today?, Curiosity landed 2012 in the Gale Crater on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mission_radioisotope_the...


With no humans close to them.


Hmm, I don't know, it's a concept car, not a sci-fi car. Show me a big shot realist and I'll show you an even bigger dreamer.




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