It's taken 40 years...

[AspDotNetDev]

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

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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...

"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

[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]

Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

[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!

Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

[Mark_Wallace]

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

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[RichardM1]

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

Opacity, the new Transparency.

[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]

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?

I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office

[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!

"The activity of 'debugging', or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed." - "Datamation", January 15, 1984

[Figmo2]

It has a ballistic parachute installed. So that anytime you run into trouble (out of gas, engine failure, etc) - you just hit a switch and the chute is launched. Also, you can't accept delivery of this unless you complete their pilot training course first. And, lastly - it costs over $100,000 So no worries about the "hold my beer and watch this" crowd buying one of these and causing mayhem. To fly this you must have enough training, money (and hopefully enough sense) - to fly it safely. Well.....as safely as possible for an experimental aircraft. But if you are not a thrill seeker, you would never strap into one of these things to begin with.

[Figmo2]

Don't need a license because the FAA already restricts where you can fly small aircraft like this. So no matter how much improvement they make on the design, or how cheap they make it - nobody will EVER be flying this to work or to the store for a gallon of milk. Unless their work is out in the middle of nowhere. FAA rules forbid operating experimental aircraft over populated areas. BTW - these same rules govern the max fuel it can hold (and many other things). The range restriction it has now is not based on technical hurdles - it's mandated by the FAA.