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Title: My next taxi will... walk
Post by: watty on October 26, 2020, 05:22:26 pm
(https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2020/10/25/a4326378-36ec-4c9d-8215-0e64e7eb1b75/hyundai-walking-taxi.jpg)

Hyundai made a walking car (no, really) (https://www.zdnet.com/article/hyundai-made-a-walking-car-no-really/)

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It's fitting, as we wait for flying cars, that we might first see walking cars first. There's an evolutionary logic there, and while this concept might at first elicit eye rolls, it actually makes a weird kind of sense for some pretty important use cases. The vehicle has four wheels and operates as a normal under normal driving conditions. But when it needs to access areas that normal cars never could, its extensible legs lift it and its wheels turn 90 degrees to become feet. The articulated legs then allow the car to walk forward in a quadrupedal gait like some kind of mutant cow.

 lol
Title: Re: My next taxi will... walk
Post by: Jonno on October 26, 2020, 06:15:39 pm
(https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2020/10/25/a4326378-36ec-4c9d-8215-0e64e7eb1b75/hyundai-walking-taxi.jpg)

Hyundai made a walking car (no, really) (https://www.zdnet.com/article/hyundai-made-a-walking-car-no-really/)

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It's fitting, as we wait for flying cars, that we might first see walking cars first. There's an evolutionary logic there, and while this concept might at first elicit eye rolls, it actually makes a weird kind of sense for some pretty important use cases. The vehicle has four wheels and operates as a normal under normal driving conditions. But when it needs to access areas that normal cars never could, its extensible legs lift it and its wheels turn 90 degrees to become feet. The articulated legs then allow the car to walk forward in a quadrupedal gait like some kind of mutant cow.

 lol
Them Koreans. [emoji849] They'd try anything.
We used to have a Fiat Ritmo that moved that way. It wasn't intentional mind you. It eventually rusted away to nothing.

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Title: Re: My next taxi will... walk
Post by: Shallowhal on October 26, 2020, 09:55:14 pm
Just like another Italian car...Alfa Romeo....when it rained you could hear it rusting away in front of you.
Title: Re: My next taxi will... walk
Post by: Cool Boola on October 27, 2020, 06:30:34 pm
(https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2020/10/25/a4326378-36ec-4c9d-8215-0e64e7eb1b75/hyundai-walking-taxi.jpg)

Hyundai made a walking car (no, really) (https://www.zdnet.com/article/hyundai-made-a-walking-car-no-really/)

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It's fitting, as we wait for flying cars, that we might first see walking cars first. There's an evolutionary logic there, and while this concept might at first elicit eye rolls, it actually makes a weird kind of sense for some pretty important use cases. The vehicle has four wheels and operates as a normal under normal driving conditions. But when it needs to access areas that normal cars never could, its extensible legs lift it and its wheels turn 90 degrees to become feet. The articulated legs then allow the car to walk forward in a quadrupedal gait like some kind of mutant cow.

 lol
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