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I haven't found anything about this on the web, and it certainly sounds like a hoax, but it wasn't presented as one. This story is in the Summer 2005 issue of Scottish Life magazine, in their news roundup pages.


Top Secret Car Stolen in Glasgow

A nationwide hunt is underway to recover a $36M "invisible" car which was stolen when a bungling Ministry of Defense official left it running while he went into a Glasgow liquor store to buy lottery tickets.

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The car uses technology developed by Scottish scientists in which each cell of the paint is either a digital camera or a high-quality projector. When a small electrical charge is applied to the paint, the cameras and monitors switch on and anyone looking at the car sees only a picture of the background.
 
Such technology does exist. Some guy in Japan actually made a coat with similar properties, according to the Discovery Channel. But this story does sound a little fishy...
 
Hoax!

Anyone giving this more than a nanosecond of thought would realize how utterly impractical an "invisible" car is. It would be rear-ended each time it stopped for a light and rammed at four-way stops, not the mention all that damage from cars pulling into the apparently empty parking space.

Talk about gullible........ :rolleyes:

And how is this even REMOTELY "Legal and Political?"
 
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So the tires have these special properties too? Hubcaps? Windshield and windows? Windshield wipers? Brake lights? The most you could do, even if the entire car surface was a digital canvas, would be to break up the outline. There's no way you could get the perspective right to truly make the car invisible to an observer, except over long distances against a relatively uniform background. Camouflage is possible, but invisibility isn't.
 
Hey, you never know.

What I mean by that is how many times have you "hidden" in plain sight and no one saw you? How many times has a witness not recognized something that was right in front of them?

It doesn't have to be invisible, just so mandane that the "normal" person just doesn't pick it up.

But, I don't believe the story either so I was just playing devil's advocate :). But then again, it could be true :eek: .

Wayne
 
Such a system wouldn't make the car invisible. It would make it hard to see - like all camoflage does if paired with the right environment.

I doubt you'd leave it on in traffic.


It's a dumb story, but certainly possible.
 
Actually, now that I think about it, goes back to My Favorite Martian, doesn't it? Didn't Uncle Martin have a saucer that he could hide with a force-field?
 
And how is this even REMOTELY "Legal and Political?"

It's not. Which means this isn't the appropriate sub-forum for it.

Nor is it firearms- or hunting-related, either, which means there isn't an appropriate sub-forum for it on TFL.
 
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