If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
|
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:16:51 AM UTC-5, bob wrote:
> http://www.electronicproducts.com/El..._failed.as px > > > > bob Smokey Stover's two wheels car. Back in the 1970s Popular Mechanics magazine had some plans in their magazine of how to build a Smokey Stover two wheels car. I have that old magazine right here. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On 5/29/2014 5:16 AM, bob wrote:
> http://www.electronicproducts.com/El..._failed.as px > > > bob This is probably more practical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:43:25 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On 5/29/2014 5:16 AM, bob wrote: > > > http://www.electronicproducts.com/El..._failed.as px > > > > > > > > > bob > > > > This is probably more practical. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU That Google car looks like one of those German micro cars back in the 1950s. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On 5/29/2014 7:20 PM, JR wrote:
> On Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:43:25 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote: >> On 5/29/2014 5:16 AM, bob wrote: >> >>> http://www.electronicproducts.com/El..._failed.as px >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> bob >> >> >> >> This is probably more practical. >> >> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU > > That Google car looks like one of those German micro cars back in the 1950s. > You're right. I guess the most efficient shape for a car as far as passenger space goes is one that approaches an egg shape. What this means is that the car of the future will be pretty darn cute. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On 5/29/2014 6:43 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 5/29/2014 5:16 AM, bob wrote: >> http://www.electronicproducts.com/El..._failed.as px >> >> >> >> bob > > This is probably more practical. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU A car which drives itself is like hiring someone to go ride my bicycle. Meh. -- Andrew Muzi <www.yellowjersey.org/> Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On 5/30/2014 2:25 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> > A car which drives itself is like hiring someone to go ride my bicycle. > Meh. > Hiring someone to ride your bicycle won't get you anywhere. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
Some people can ride a bicycle many miles with a weak spot on the tire, no such luck for me. One time I was riding my bicycle along a road near the sidewalk curb in Daytona Beach and I ran over a thumb tack, I got a flat tire.. That same. Bicycle, another time I was in New Orleans and I got drunk and I forgot where I parked that bicycle. It was parked near that tall hotel that has a big. Square roof thingy on it, exactly where I had parked it the day before. That was an old junkyard bicycle I used to haul around in my van. Nobody would steal that piece of junk bicycle.
|
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On Friday, May 30, 2014 1:20:12 PM UTC+8, JR wrote:
> > > > That Google car looks like one of those German micro cars back in the 1950s. You mean the BMW Isetta? One of the 10 worst cars ever made. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Gyrocar
On Saturday, May 31, 2014 9:44:34 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Friday, May 30, 2014 1:20:12 PM UTC+8, JR wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > That Google car looks like one of those German micro cars back in the 1950s. > > > > You mean the BMW Isetta? One of the 10 worst cars ever made. When I was in the Army at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois (Nike Hercules Missiles)in 1963 I bought a 1957 BMW Isetta from an Air Force Officer. I still have the owner/operators manual that came with that car. The original owner of the car was a woman in Germany. On a rainy day going across the Eads Bridge to Saint Louis that car was 'skating' around on that Bridge. Those little light cars are death traps. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|