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Hmm . . . Well, Tesla himself was the Father of Vaporware. I had no idea before that article that they weren't already cranking those cars out and that no one was even allowed to drive the prototype.
If any one out there is keeping track, one of the most bizarre vaporware car stories was the Dale.
Can't comment on these cars yet, but I'd say Tesla's 120v60hz is some firmware that's worn pretty well, and the math underlying its 3-phase generation was done in his head, so the story goes. I'd say the stuff he 'supposedly' invented has been pretty well justified by the things he actually accomplished.
-First Radio controlled boat, central park, 190?
-Fluorescent Lighting
etc, etc.
"Father of Vaporware" was so outlandish to me that I held back from posting. I don't own any of the many books written about Tesla and it's been decades since I've done the kind of reading required to addequately refute the label.
I would be surprised if a large portion of this particular board's readership was well informed of Tesla's contributions. Most here seem to have a high degree of formal education in the sciences, which I certainly don't. That can create a tunnel vision.
Your points are just the obvious contributions of his career. The non-obvious is what was taken by the Yugoslav authorities after the FBI took what they wanted.
Caps, your link takes me to some website where math geeks argue about curves all day.
He probably meant to post this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_%28automobile%29
I see that Wikipedia has a whole category for them, with several hundred entries.
The problem will solve itself.
But not in a nice way.