Tar & gravel is a great surface when the road is less traveled. Ever heard a company named Innowattech. Innowattech provide new alternative energy system that can harvests mechanical energy imparted to roadways, railways and runways from passing vehicles and trains and converts it into green electricity and this already happening in Italy. (Italian infrastructure and civil engineering contractor Impregilo SpA has selected Innowattech as its exclusive energy provider for lighting road signs on the Venice-Trieste highway in Italy).

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Yeh, but German cars are designed for good roads. What makes people think they can handle our potholes?

Ads like this appeal to the lowest common denominator. Having owned and worked on a variety of German cars (Porsche, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen), I can confidently say German cars about the last vehicle you want to repeatedly subject to poor road conditions. The components are mostly expensive (e.g. cast aluminum control arms) and designed for high levels of grip and stability at high speed on well-kept tarmac, which is generally at odds with a system designed for massive shocks (potholes, travelling over pitted and cracked concrete at high speed) that require lots of suspension travel. I recall nylon ball-joint cups that sometimes disintegrated after one pothole encounter on post-1985.5 Porsches, a problem which Porsche (brashly) said necessitated replacing the entire control arm (a $500+ part), though creative third parties learned to remedy the issue for far less. This design was far more durable and offered a great deal better performance on the track than the one preceding it, however it was far more a liability for day-to-day driving.

Research is rapidly increasing and computers are taking over. Recently I saw someone create a vehicle that a bling man can drive. Imagine you don't need to see the road anymore to drive? This day and age we rely so heavily on computers it does not even matter what type of car you are driving.

In the '70s there was a story kicking around that German auto designers made plaster casts of Bronx potholes to copy into their test tracks.

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