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View Poll Results: The earliest era that could successfully reverse engineer a car would be ... | |||
1850 - 1902 era | 19 | 52.78% | |
1800 to 1849 | 6 | 16.67% | |
1750 to 1799 | 5 | 13.89% | |
1700 to 1749 | 0 | 0% | |
1650 to 1699 | 0 | 0% | |
1600 to 1649 | 0 | 0% | |
1550 to 1599 | 1 | 2.78% | |
1500 to 1549 | 0 | 0% | |
1450 to 1499 | 0 | 0% | |
472 ad to 1449 | 1 | 2.78% | |
1 ad to 471 ad | 0 | 0% | |
500 bc to 1 bc | 0 | 0% | |
2000 bc to 501 bc | 0 | 0% | |
4000 bc to 2001 bc | 0 | 0% | |
10,000 bc to 4001 bc | 1 | 2.78% | |
Earlier than 10,000 bc but after homo sapiens emerged | 0 | 0% | |
I think those earlier hominids were pretty ingenious. Mark me down for them. | 0 | 0% | |
I don't think anyone could do reverse engineer a car. It had to be developed in a forward gear. | 0 | 0% | |
I think dolphins could do it. | 1 | 2.78% | |
I need to learn more about insurance rates in each era before I can answer. | 2 | 5.56% | |
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07-25-2015, 08:15 PM | #1 |
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I think it would be very difficult to reverse engineer a car without being able to machine the parts to a very precise tolerance. Hard to imagine a blacksmith being able to do that.
But more than the car itself, aren't you forgetting about two important things: 1) Said society needs to be able to refine gasoline/ethanol to a purity that isn't going to blow the engine 2) How is the air conditioning going to work without refrigerant? Chlorofluorocarbons weren't even synthetically feasible until the 1890s. |
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07-25-2015, 09:03 PM | #3 | |
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I'd say anytime before the mid 1600s and they wouldn't even know where to begin on many of the materials. If you started in 1650 I would think the process would still take 50-100 years before they could complete a working car. |
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07-27-2015, 11:45 PM | #4 | |
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