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posted by martyb on Friday August 24 2018, @06:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-car-looks-like-a-robot-snack dept.

Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled a sleek electric concept car that its creators say will compete with Elon Musk's market leader Tesla.

Based on the body of a Soviet hatchback Izh, Kalashnikov's CV-1 electric vehicle's 90 kilowatt hour battery gives it a range of 350 kilometers. The arms company says the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 6 seconds.

The brand, best known for the AK-47 machine gun, on Thursday presented the retro-looking pale blue prototype, the CV-1 at a defence expo outside Moscow.

Earlier this week, online users ridiculed Kalashnikov's new bipedal combat robot. The golden-colour machine, reportedly named "Igoryok" in production stages, immediately became a subject of social media memes.

Is the car going to be a threat to troubled Tesla?


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @07:31AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @07:31AM (#725683)

    the AK-47 is a rifle, not a machine gun.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday August 24 2018, @03:11PM (6 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Friday August 24 2018, @03:11PM (#725841) Journal

    If a rifle is automatic, like the "Automatic Kalashnikov" (AK), the media will call it a machine gun.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:55PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:55PM (#725860)

      And they would be right. For purposes of federal law, a machine gun is defined as:

      [A]ny weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manually reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

      • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday August 24 2018, @04:17PM (4 children)

        by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 24 2018, @04:17PM (#725878) Journal

        For purposes of federal law, a machine gun is defined as

        All guns are machines; the idea of "machine gun" is mildly developmentally challenged. A gun (pistol, rifle, Gatling gun, or what have you) can feature automatic fire or not feature it.

        Defining a gun as a machine is rather like defining water wet. Defining only certain guns as machines is just not credible.

        How does federal law define the cosmological constant? The speed of light? The fine structure constant? How would any of these federal definitions make any difference, either?

        • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday August 24 2018, @05:54PM (3 children)

          by NewNic (6420) on Friday August 24 2018, @05:54PM (#725938) Journal

          How does Federal law define a tomato? Fruit or vegetable?

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          • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday August 24 2018, @08:10PM (2 children)

            by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 24 2018, @08:10PM (#726000) Journal

            How, indeed?

            For those who did not read the question as being rhetorical:

            The Federal Tomato Standards [usda.gov] don't mention fruit or vegetable, but the USDA Inspection Instructions For Tomatoes (PDF Warning) [usda.gov], which do not have the rule of law, say in part (page 20) things like, "Abnormally soft and watery fruit are considered very undesirable" and "The appearance and condition of abnormally soft and watery fruit is different than fruit that can be called 'soft.'"

            • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday August 24 2018, @08:45PM (1 child)

              by NewNic (6420) on Friday August 24 2018, @08:45PM (#726016) Journal

              I think you missed this:

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden [wikipedia.org]

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              • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday August 24 2018, @09:08PM

                by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 24 2018, @09:08PM (#726028) Journal

                You're right; the Supreme Court is an agency of the Federal government.

                Clearly not a knowledgeable one, but one with authority nonetheless.