OT: Silly philosophical quiz

[FromTheRafters]

Commander Kinsey has brought this to us :

That is indeed the question, why *CAN'T* you? There is not enough information in the post to determine why it *CAN'T* be done.

[Snit]

On Dec 9, 2020 at 1:39:16 PM MST, "FromTheRafters" wrote <rqrcli$1g96$ [e-mail]>:

I noted the same thing. I think he perhaps asked a question other than the one he intended. I did suggest towing as I noted it though. :)

[Snit]

On Dec 9, 2020 at 10:55:18 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0vddegtgwdg98l@glass>:

Interesting. Here getting a bus would be quite expensive. Smaller cars are much cheaper.

Oh.

Not quite what you meant. :)

I think you are stuck getting a tow bar... even if not cheap.

[Snit]

On Dec 9, 2020 at 10:44:22 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0vdcwderwdg98l@glass>:

You never thought of what you were asking? Then who did? :)

Ditto -- though in a pandemic that is more challenging and less safe.

That makes things more complex. Certainly there must be SOME temporary method... even if you have to rent a car.

[FromTheRafters]

Snit presented the following explanation :

There was no question, see below.

"Describe mathematically/logically why the following cannot be done:"

But you are right about towing, I don't see why it would be a problem as stipulated. In fact it seems so obvious an answer that even the OP should have already considered it if that was what the OP was really asking.

[rbowman]

You may be correct. I live in a golden past when cars had real frames and real bumpers and you could clamp a tow bar to the bumper.

[rbowman]

They're not familiar with Yankee ingenuity and redneck engineering. When Honda designed the Cub they didn't think a Csmbodian could get his entire family, a pig, and three chickens on it either.

[rbowman]

The Thames. Have you no imagination?

[Anonymous]

That's exactly the type I used some years ago, along with a tow bar like these

And I did not need anybody to steer the towed car. It tracked behind just fine. 1200 miles from IL to TX.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Gremlin explained on 10/12/2020 :

Incorrect! If a tow rope, or a straight single bar is used for towing, then someone needs to be in the driving seat of the towed vehicle to brake and steer it.

[Jack Harry Teesdale]

When i bought a car from a dealer in Edinburgh whilst living in the midlands of England, the dealer delivered it on a vehicle transporter.

Otherwise i would just have driven up with a friend/relative to collect the car.

[FromTheRafters]

Harry Bloomfield, Esq. expressed precisely :

Would it be correct to call that second person another 'driver' in the context of the 'philosophical quiz'?

[soup]

OK possibly not very environmentally sound but why not buy a 2nd/3rd/WHY hand car (legal but a heap) drive to your destination and dump it (or sell it for a small amount) then drive new car home.

Didn't Topgear do this and found out it was actually a lot cheaper than the train?

[Snit]

On Dec 10, 2020 at 5:08:08 AM MST, "FromTheRafters" wrote <rqt337$1pb3$ [e-mail]>:

I would find it an acceptable term. The towed car is not being moved on its own power but there is still someone driving it.

[Commander Kinsey]

Yes, they need to know the basics of operating a car, and they legally have to have a license I would assume.

[FromTheRafters]

That fails to get the two mentioned cars in London "without" using other vehicles.

[FromTheRafters]

Then the rule about help is broken, you would have two drivers.

[soup]

1 car is in Glasgow . Doesn't say it is a third hand 'heap' .

[FromTheRafters]

I didn't say that it was, and the original description in the OP didn't say that it wasn't. Serious lack of information about why it might be impossible.

[Commander Kinsey]

Actually not easy. When I last looked for £500 or less cars here, there were only three, and all of them were 25 miles away.