It's taken 40 years...

[Joe Woodbury]

"It is capable of traveling 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full tank of fuel." It goes 1 mph? Methinks there are multiple mixed up quotes in there. Brain freeze moment. It's 60 mph with no crumple zones. I have visions of Mr. Rocketbelt slamming into a highway sign and dropping onto the pavement below. And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

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[AspDotNetDev]

Joe Woodbury wrote:

And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

Yeah, I wonder how it ensures that the pilot (I was going to say "user" but that word just scares me when I consider how incompetent users can be) lands before the fuel runs out. When gas in a car runs out, you slow down and stop. When you run out of fuel in a jet pack, do you just fall down and die?

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[kmg365]

I wonder what the radar cross section is.

[_Damian S_]

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]

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?

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

[FyreWyrm]

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

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

[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...

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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]

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!

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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!

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: