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Stan Meyer's water buggy had a computer: the Gas Management System

Stan Meyer's buggy didn't just carry water. It carried a computer. Here the Meyer twins, Stan and Stephen, walk through the Gas Management System's pre-engineering model: the gas pedal becomes an electrical signal that sets how long each injector stays open, timed by a light gate on the distributor

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Stan & Stephen Meyer · the GMS unit · GlobalKast master

Stan Meyer's buggy didn't just carry water. It carried a computer. Here the Meyer twins, Stan and Stephen, walk through the Gas Management System's pre-engineering model: the gas pedal becomes an electrical signal that sets how long each injector stays open, timed by a light gate on the distributor that reads the engine's rotation; a switch runs the engine on gasoline or on water for comparison; and alarm modules watch overspeed, oil and temperature and shut the electronics down. In 1995 Stan registered the copyrights for the on-road computer diagnostic analyzer and the 486 EPROM chip logic. Engine management, built for water.

About the voices. The narrator is NeuralStan, an AI voice the archive uses for its made films. Where you hear Stan Meyer, it is Stan: every word of his is cut from an original recording, and nothing he says was synthesised.

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Stan & Stephen Meyer · the GMS unit · GlobalKast master
Stanley & Stephen Meyer explaining the GMS unit (GlobalKast master) — transcribed on stanslegacy.com
US Copyright Office, TX 4-086-227 (1995): WFC hydrogen gas management system on-road computer diagnostic analyzer
US Copyright Office, TX 4-201-061 (1995): WFC Hydrogen Gas Management System, Water Fuel Injection System, 486 computer "eprom" chip logic format

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NeuralStan (AI narrator) · Stan Meyer's buggy didn't just carry water. It carried a computer. Here are the Meyer twins, Stan and Stephen, showing how it worked.
Stan or Stephen Meyer (original recording) · this is kind of a pre-engineering model that allows us to develop the electronics and the controls for the car
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · The gas pedal became an electrical signal. The computer set how long each injector stayed open, timed by a light gate on the distributor that reads the engine's turn.
Stan or Stephen Meyer (original recording) · These switches right here allows us to switch between gasoline for an operating mode and then switch over to the water as an operating mode.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · It watched the engine too: overspeed, oil, temperature. Trip one, and the electronics shut down.
Stan or Stephen Meyer (original recording) · The engine would have gone into an overspeed condition, and then we shut the electronics off, therefore allowing the safe operation of the car.
NeuralStan (AI narrator) · In nineteen ninety-five Stan copyrighted the software side: an on-road diagnostic analyzer, and chip logic for a four eighty-six. Engine management, built for water. Follow.

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