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aspdotnetdev wrote:

When you run out of fuel in a jet pack

aspdotnetdev wrote:

you slow down and stop

only much faster!!

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AspDotNetDev

Ha, yeah, if you consider an impulse slowing down and stopping. Which would only occur after speeding up like you're in a Toyota.

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FyreWyrm · modified on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:04 PM

Joe Woodbury wrote:

30 miles in 30 minutes

Joe Woodbury wrote:

It goes 1 mph?

30 miles in 30 minutes = 1 mile per minute = 60 miles per hour. Right?

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AspDotNetDev

Good catch. At 1 mile per hour, one could only travel half a mile in 30 minutes. :thumbsup:

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FyreWyrm

Interesting. You can't use it in bad weather though. Personally, I'd rather have a Skycar.

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Joe Woodbury

Yeah, brain freeze moment. And wow, wait until the youtube videos show up of people slamming into stuff at 60 mph.

AspDotNetDev

It goes 1 MPH: it's too slow! It goes 60 MPH: it's too fast! Make up your mind man ;P !

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Joe Woodbury

aspdotnetdev wrote:

It goes 1 MPH: it's too slow!

I think the entire thing is foolishness, but as long as the bodies don't land on me, they can play Darwin. Given the pictures and my brain freeze moment, I was just puzzled how something that looked like it would go so slow and what the point would be. Even the Segway goes faster.

Rob Graham

That depends on the number of beers consumed so far by the pilot. Hmm. Wonder how soon they'll be smuggling these into the Gaza strip.

Roger Wright

Only 30 miles to a tank of gas? That would get me to work, but not home again. :wtf: I think I'll wait until version 1.1...

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FyreWyrm

Joe Woodbury wrote:

people slamming into stuff at 60 mph

Yeah, stuff like power lines. [News Anchor]Half the city was without power today when John Dumass flew his jet pack into an overhead line.[/News Anchor]

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Steve Mayfield

a safety chute that deploys automatically when the engines shut down and you're more than a few feet above ground would be nice!

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Mark_Wallace

Wait until the Health & Safety exec takes a look at it. Expect another 40 years.

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RichardM1

1G - that is 0-60 in < 3 seconds! Wow, I didn't know Toyota's could do that!

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AspDotNetDev

The recent reports of Toyota's accelerating out of the driver's control seem to imply they can. :rolleyes:

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Andreas Mertens · modified on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:04 PM

I can just imagine zooming up to some altitude, and the warning light for "low on gas" comes on...

Fabio Franco

Oh man... imagine when this gets popular and people start going with these to the bar :doh:

agolddog

It's not the fall, it's the sudden stop.

Lilith C

Kewl thing about it is that you, in theory, can travel as the crow flies and thus circumvent the extra distance imposed by twists and turns of the highway. I can imagine some difficulties in learning how to navigate over long distances without either following the highways or at least knowing of landmarks within line of sight. So, how available is the fuel and how much does the fuel cost?

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Richard Jones

Achieving the concept is the easy part. What do you do with a 250kg ducted air pack (not a jetpack) when you get there? Leave it outside the store? Where can you refuel it? Will it work in the rain? As pointed out, 'copters can autogyro, and fixed-wings can glide. This can do neither. Given the vast lack of driving skills on the roads today, we'll need stronger roofs on our cars for the impending bombardments of pilot wannabes who lost control. Not to mention other bombardments of a disgusting nature. Make licenses mandatory to keep them limited in number puhlease!

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