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Question: How will future Acabion Road Streamliners differ from current prototypes?

The differences will be small, because you have a hard time if you try to optimize a Dolphin. Anyway there is still anevolution going on here and differences arise mostly in two fields:

First the Acabion genesis is a constantly ongoing development by definition. For us only radical technological evolutionand true innovation counts. I learned a lot in my many year as an automotive engineer at companies like Porsche,

Mercedes, BMW and Ferrari, but the most I learned after I left the very very narrow boundaries of car design. And wenever stop learning here. Each new Acabion is better than the last one was.

And second we build custom made crafts for very demanding people with very specific wishes; and this means eachAcabion adapts very much to the customer's own visions. Anyway, for all Acabion crafts, there are always the samethree main fields of constant improvement: 1) Trying to achieve an external absolute aerodynamic consequence, 2)striving for perfection of internal space and ergonomics and 3) shooting for the dynamic potential of a ground-to-groundrocket combined with the handling precision of a world-champion superbike.

All three fields interfere closely with each other within a jet-like body, and it is a hell of a job optimizing them allsynchronously. We do it since 30 years now, continuously, with generation VIII coming up in 2011.

Status 2011 can be described as follows:

As to 1) we can prove that we achieved an efficiency increase towards a latest fully electric compact car of + 2000% (factor 20).

As to 2) we can prove that we outperform the comfort of a Rolls Royce backseat in a long wheelbase version.As to 3) we for example build a 'Bonneville' Acabion for a Swiss client now, shooting for the 700 km/h mark,

but not with a classical Bonneville-racer design, but with a basically fully road worthy concept,not differing much from road legal Acabion types.

700 km/h Acabion 'GTBB VIII Bonneville' as it is in progress now for a Swiss client team

Question: What kind of international cooperation and financial cost would be necessary to build the infra-structure for a future traffic internet?

One crucial remark in advance to this very good question: The Acabion does not need any special infrastructure at all. Itdrives on any cart lane, any cobblestone road and on each and every street of this world whatsoever and of course it

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operates on all existing highways, too. And it saves 95% energy on all existing roads, at any speed from 1 mphonwards, because it is a radically consequent streamliner, and not a car.

Additionally. the speed potential of the Acabion is so dramatically higher than the speed potential of any car or motorcycle, that future perspectives will most likely call for tracks allowing much more speed much safer than today'shighways do. And if such an additional technology would come, the Acabion suggestion is to decide for elevated trackswith one lane per direction, full auto pilot function in each vehicle, traffic control like with a train system, high speed

level at 450 km/h and more, a physical guidance in the center of the tracks for ice rain or storm conditions, automatedaccess areas and same speed for everyone.

Acabion Elevated Track System, Paris, La Defense

The capacity of one streamliner lane is 6 times higher than the capacity of a four lane highway. This is proven bymathematicians. It is like comparing a 1972 compact cassette with a 2011 blue ray DVD. You can do more with a brandnew system, than an old technology could ever even dream about. Problem is that in mobility too many people protectthe old lobbies and try to block the blue ray disc by polishing the old 1972 compact cassette until the oil runs out.Why? Because the cannot imagine what advantaged a true technology quantum leap has in this field. There arearguments sometimes the blockade has to do with money. But it has not. The DVD-age technology generates muchmore turnaround than the compact cassette age ever did.

But back to the question: If the elevated tracks would come one day, additionally to today's roads, they would require a

political decision, just like politics decided for the railroad back in 1835. The costs per passenger kilometer will be 10times lower than with a standard highway, due to the massively increased capacity.

Question: Infrastructure tends to evolve along with technology. How is it possible to complete such a massivetask of building a traffic internet?

I think it will happen all by itself as soon as enough people learned how it can be done and what advantages it wouldhave. And one more thing: Usually technicians and visionary politicians tend to seek high tech in space flight or highend scientific research. I say: Discover standard tasks as the true high tech fields for tomorrow. Planet earth is our bestspace ship we have. Keep it up to date. Do not destroy it with technologies that are obsolete and destructive.

If a traffic internet will start, it will be a 100 years genesis, starting with first test tracks, generating so much publicinterest that you get the payback by tourists if you make it right. In parallel the number of road streamliners operating

on the old road net will increase. As soon as this number is high enough, first big cities could be connected by elevatedhigh speed tracks.

Basically it is simple. All you need is enough good engineers in the deciders positions.

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Question: How will the cost of an individual Acabion streamliner be brought down?

By reducing the overall exclusivity and by reducing the power from our today's top-of-the-line 700 hp or 800 hp tostandard regions, and of course by mass production. We build extremely capable versions to start with. And just one intwo years right now. But it is a start. And configuring these top exclusive crafts in a region above 5 Million $ each is

big, big fun. Here is an example of a design we now elaborate for another customer. Defining a customer craft here isnot sales. It is an art form I would like to explain with our top model, the Acabion da Vinci:

600 km/h fully electric Acabion GTBO VIII 'da Vinci', 15 Million $ version,as right now in progress for an exclusive client

The Acabion da Vinci is the technology carrier of the technology carriers. It takes five years to build one, and it willeven be prepared for vacuum tube use, to show the trend, and to make quite clear that even 600 km/h is not the lastword here.

The vacuum tube idea sounds weird to many. But it will be the most serious part of future traffic, as soon as people findout that indeed for individual systems like the Acabion it will be absolutely affordable. Two tubes between New York and Paris, 1.5 m diameter each, maglev driven and fully automatic controlled, will move three times more people

between America and Europe than all airplanes do today. And they will do it even if a volcano in Island had a hiccup,

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and they will do it at 10 000 mph speed. You can leave New York after breakfast, spend the afternoon in Paris, and be back to New York for lunch same day.

Acabion vacuum tube system / pressure reduced system

We are so far in the design process here that we even have the full emergency concept worked out as can be seen on thenext page:

Acabion vacuum tube system / pressure reduced system, emergency mode

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If someone ever though he could stop us by ignoring us or by avoiding funding money reaching us or by doing all kindsof things in the background to block us, well there is one of my most beloved proverbs in place: You can cage thesinger. But not the song. Harry Belafonte said it, and I love the message.

For me the Acabion times where so hard that more than one time it nearly killed me, and it is still a hard fight everyday. But I never stopped and I will never stop until the day I die. Why? Because I love these visions too much. 600km/h for everyone instead of 300 km/h for just a few. Traveling the entire world at any time, almost for free, fully

electric from solar power plants, hey, that is all so damn cool that I would be a damn fool to give it up. I just won't giveup.

At Engadin Airport with an Acabion III of 2006.

Best regards

Peter ;-)