That looks like a pre-Segway. The local police that patrol the down area used to walk or ride a small bicycle. Good exercise either way. Now they’ve begun using Segways. (Now I’m curious as to what they cost and where does a person buy one.)
In 1906 the Royal Navy launched the HMS Dreadnought. It was the world’s first modern battleship and made all other battleships, including those in the Royal Navy, obsolete. Every nation was now exactly one battleship short of the Royal Navy and this sparked an arms race where each country was vying to build bigger an bigger battleships.
The same thing is happening with SUVs. The bigger they are, the safer they are (better crash test ratings) – for those in them. Your children will be safe, but those in the vehicle you obliterate with your sheer displacement tonnage won’t be as fortunate.
In war, there has always been a battle between armor and armor piercing. I’m looking for some reactive armor to put on my sedan.
Smart cars / driverless cars are pricing themselves out of the market. That’s why Ford, GM and others have decided to stop making cars and concentrate on expensive SUVs and trucks. Sooner or later someone is going to reinvent the affordable car that actually is a car and not some robotic computer on wheels.
The world speed record on inline skates (downhill) is 77.47 mph set by Sandro Bovo (an Italian), in Teutonia, Brazil, February 21, 2016. And above, the first generation roller skate.
Look there goes one of those Smart-less Wheels. You know the standard wheels gets better mileage. Those little things were, outclassed by the hybrid wheel. That little thing was obsolete before it rolled off the lot. It can roll?? Well as Thor would say “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”. He told him no one would Ridicule him! Ha HA Hee HE.
I live in the country. Want to see how long a driverless car handles county roads or what it does when it gets stuck halfway up a slushy driveway. And BTW you can turn a minivan around in a narrow driveway if it is slippery enough.
“Smart wheels” are the wave of the future. Along with virtual axles and independently actuated wheels in the shape of spheres using neuro-glide transmissions. BB-8 is a droid example. What you saw in “I, Robot” set in the year 2045 A.D. Wireless controlled steering.
Another influence of the education machines left for them to use. The GMO people and animals to survive the worst of the Anthropogenic Global Warming. (A glitch or two have developed in some of the hidden machinery giving them some information ahead of schedule.
awgiedawgie Premium Member over 5 years ago
With wheels that small, even a pebble in the path would be enough to send him sprawling.
jagedlo over 5 years ago
Smart wheels, dumb driver!
finkd over 5 years ago
Smart wheels, but not Hot Wheels™.
Enter.Name.Here over 5 years ago
Not as far to fall flat on your face. Replacement tires…I mean rocks, are cheaper too.
hariseldon59 over 5 years ago
“I’ll be glad when they invent rubber tires.” – Fred Flintstone
Mordock999 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Actually he MEANT “cartwheels.” So get to flippin’!
Watcher over 5 years ago
The sports wheel.
jmcenanly over 5 years ago
They’re just the thing for flattening pastry dough.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 5 years ago
It is great for ‘short’ trips.
donwalter over 5 years ago
…but you “knead” the bread to buy one…
Plods with ...™ over 5 years ago
The comments never disappoint in the ridicule dept
Zebrastripes over 5 years ago
Handlebars come next….
Aaberon over 5 years ago
That looks like a pre-Segway. The local police that patrol the down area used to walk or ride a small bicycle. Good exercise either way. Now they’ve begun using Segways. (Now I’m curious as to what they cost and where does a person buy one.)
DanFlak over 5 years ago
The trend is in the opposite direction.
In 1906 the Royal Navy launched the HMS Dreadnought. It was the world’s first modern battleship and made all other battleships, including those in the Royal Navy, obsolete. Every nation was now exactly one battleship short of the Royal Navy and this sparked an arms race where each country was vying to build bigger an bigger battleships.
The same thing is happening with SUVs. The bigger they are, the safer they are (better crash test ratings) – for those in them. Your children will be safe, but those in the vehicle you obliterate with your sheer displacement tonnage won’t be as fortunate.
In war, there has always been a battle between armor and armor piercing. I’m looking for some reactive armor to put on my sedan.
awgiedawgie Premium Member over 5 years ago
“The trend is in the opposite direction.”
That certainly doesn’t explain smart cars.
hollisson Premium Member over 5 years ago
I didn’t know that they made a Smart® ForOne. I wonder how much it costs.
Doug Taylor Premium Member over 5 years ago
Smart cars / driverless cars are pricing themselves out of the market. That’s why Ford, GM and others have decided to stop making cars and concentrate on expensive SUVs and trucks. Sooner or later someone is going to reinvent the affordable car that actually is a car and not some robotic computer on wheels.
chromosome Premium Member over 5 years ago
Those look like reverse dumbbells.
rshive over 5 years ago
Woe to he who hits a ground hog.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation over 5 years ago
the smaller wheel means more rotations at the same speed, more friction on the feet.
redback over 5 years ago
yea what a dweeb; you are not overcompensating and wasting gas like the rest of us, loser
colcam over 5 years ago
The world speed record on inline skates (downhill) is 77.47 mph set by Sandro Bovo (an Italian), in Teutonia, Brazil, February 21, 2016. And above, the first generation roller skate.
joeatwork212 over 5 years ago
The first “Low-Rider”.
Herb L 1954 over 5 years ago
Wait for the Mickey Thompson’s to come out ;)
blakerl over 5 years ago
Look there goes one of those Smart-less Wheels. You know the standard wheels gets better mileage. Those little things were, outclassed by the hybrid wheel. That little thing was obsolete before it rolled off the lot. It can roll?? Well as Thor would say “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”. He told him no one would Ridicule him! Ha HA Hee HE.
Spiny Norman Premium Member over 5 years ago
Hemi wheel…
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe over 5 years ago
I live in the country. Want to see how long a driverless car handles county roads or what it does when it gets stuck halfway up a slushy driveway. And BTW you can turn a minivan around in a narrow driveway if it is slippery enough.
cuzinron47 over 5 years ago
Reading the comments, I’m coming up with all kinds of uses for this, except driving.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 5 years ago
Small radius accentuates every bump.
heathcliff2 over 5 years ago
Is there an axle between the footrests?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
“Smart wheels” are the wave of the future. Along with virtual axles and independently actuated wheels in the shape of spheres using neuro-glide transmissions. BB-8 is a droid example. What you saw in “I, Robot” set in the year 2045 A.D. Wireless controlled steering.
Another influence of the education machines left for them to use. The GMO people and animals to survive the worst of the Anthropogenic Global Warming. (A glitch or two have developed in some of the hidden machinery giving them some information ahead of schedule.