*Asian *comedy about the *future. Awesome.

HA HA HA - "Unless you're fat".

This wheelchair facebook thing is at once intriguing and scary.

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So we're all meant to ride around in fast wheelchairs?

Sorry - fast FUTURISTIC wheelchairs!

OMG!

"Imagine Birmingham..." - I pee'd myself!

Wall-E?

It's great fun until someone runs a red light.

This might be good for large cities.

Is that tron music? .. Awesome. Another step closer to a wall-e like future.

Just watched WALL-E today, and I too thought of that while watching the video. If you're not fat when you get in one, you might be before too long.

They said similar things about segway - that it will revolutionize personal transportation in large cities. But obviously that hasn't happened yet. Plus I get the feeling people would prefer segway more than this thing.

I upvoted the video, but I don't really love the idea. If it went 60 mph, that would be something. Of course, it would need some serious safety upgrades. Like, if you got in a collision, the chair should have a feature where it coats you in jello and then ejects you in a soap bubble.

Dang, I should work for Toyota.

>> ^thepinky:
I upvoted the video, but I don't really love the idea. If it went 60 mph, that would be something. Of course, it would need some serious safety upgrades. Like, if you got in a collision, the chair should have a feature where it coats you in jello and then ejects you in a soap bubble.
Dang, I should work for Toyota.


I'd buy one if it supported lime jello.

yeah. its awesome, but not very practical and likely to be stolen. also - what about weather tolerance? i would buy (and use) an electronic powered bike before buying this.

Cool looking - but highly impractical. It doesn't look anywhere near rugged enough to handle generalized transportation needs in outdoor environments. "It's a personalized transportation device that can go anywhere between 1 and 20 miles an hour!" ... uhh... BIKE?

The problems with biking places are 1)Mountain bikes have an average speed of 15mph, 2) to get any reasonable speed, you have to pedal your ass off which makes you 3)tired and sweaty before you even get to work.
I would bike to work if I wouldn't be all gross by the time I got there.

I, for one, welcome our new futurechair overlords.

If this does end up like the segway, though.....well, here's an example: the only people who have segways in my city are the policemen, who then use them IN THE SIDEWALK WITH PEDESTRIANS ON and make vague threats ("obstructing justice") at you if you don't move out of the way when you fail to hear them come up behind you. I think that our pedestrian patrol cops are a lot like daleks in that way: do a robbery, take some stairs, and you've made a clean getaway.

>> ^thinker247:
First.



Thinker likes to think.

"I would bike to work if I wouldn't be all gross by the time I got there."

The point is - why 'invent' a stupid electric motorchair when you could just - you know - buy an electric moped or other motorized BIKE? There's no need for this silly Ireal because better technical solutions already exist.

>> ^budzos:
Wall-E?


I was thinking the same thing. First iteration of the fat-peoples floating lounge chairs in Wall-E.

On a serious note, while this vehicle may not go anywhere in terms of real sales, (though IMHO it's way cooler then a Segway, which saw some success,) it's stuff like this that has put Asian cars on top for years. Innovation, that while may not pan out you bet your ass the technology will find its way into more realistic and modern vehicles.

I mean did you really think the US car companies were going to do good by spending a few million on development like this a year and 100 million in commercials showing their trucks avoid obstacle courses and fly out of buildings as they blow up but in the end it's the same truck as 4 years ago with the only real difference is it gets 15mpg instead of 12?

Rickshaws, I want rickshaws. They're probably more carbon neutral than this thing, employ somebody, and still probably have a net lower cost. Besides, I bet I'd look pretty cool being pulled around in a rickshaw--cooler than in a big laz-e-boy electric wheelchair anyways.

Nevertheless, it's a cool gadget and I'm glad people are making things like this.

Kinda interesting they got the presenter that almost ended up in one to do the segment on the sexy wheelchair.

A lot of people aren't realizing this is just a test bed. You'll probably see electric cars soon that "transform" from the parking size and ability of the Smart Cars into the highway speed and stability of the Tesla Roadster.

...but you just know Stephen Hawking will get one with 26" rims and spinners, cuz he's a pimp.

I don't get this. It's too dangerous to drive on the sidewalk, too slow for roads, and too wide to take on a bike lane. WTF is the point of putting it into production?

what if it rains?

Hang on, Toyota own a CITY?!

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