U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype

[Valkysas]

This is the future of jousting
not personal transportation
just jousting

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Now we know how Wanzers and Armored Core units can slide and spin around on solid ground!

[The Toecutter]

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I think that I would prefer jousting with automobiles instead. For each automobile in the competition(typically 2), there is one driver and one passenger; the passenger keeps their torso and arms extended out of the vehicle through the passenger-side window holding a spear of sorts. The drivers commandeering each car drive towards each other as fast as possible, giving enough clearance to where the vehicles don't collide, but keeping close enough to where the passengers can spear each other.

[Denmo]

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[Hrafn]

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It would become popular with the people who are really gung ho about driving and texting at the same time. Wouldn't work well over here though, we have too many people who are...a bit too wide to fit on such a device.

[Thutmose]

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If they could build in a toilet, and a TP dispenser... I could be way more productive! Add a mini-fridge, and headrest - I'd never need to get up again.

[Cutter De Blanc]

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When i saw it I nearly **** my pants.

that thing is pretty cool

[Denmo]

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I think the most revolutionary part of this is the wheel system. I can see robots being designed with that in mind.

oh wait.

[The Toecutter]

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It would be a pain in the ass to program this thing...

[DarkwingChuck]

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[Hrafn]

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I knew someone had to mention 'IT' eventually....

[DK]

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I think that I would prefer jousting with automobiles instead. For each automobile in the competition(typically 2), there is one driver and one passenger; the passenger keeps their torso and arms extended out of the vehicle through the passenger-side window holding a spear of sorts. The drivers commandeering each car drive towards each other as fast as possible, giving enough clearance to where the vehicles don't collide, but keeping close enough to where the passengers can spear each other.

And then their spines could shatter when they are hit and slammed back into the windowframe, awesome.

[Red Dragon]

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this would totally not work for america.

Or, they would need to be like, 3x bigger and have heavy-duty metal frames for our fat behinds.

[orius]

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That thing looks unstable, I don't care how advanced the technology is.

Besides, walk you lazy bastards! Fight obesity!

I think that I would prefer jousting with automobiles instead. For each automobile in the competition(typically 2), there is one driver and one passenger; the passenger keeps their torso and arms extended out of the vehicle through the passenger-side window holding a spear of sorts. The drivers commandeering each car drive towards each other as fast as possible, giving enough clearance to where the vehicles don't collide, but keeping close enough to where the passengers can spear each other.

That's nuts. Dreamknight is right, spines would shatter, blood would spill and it would not be pretty.

Though when I was about 11 or 12, my friends and I came up with the idea of the "horseless joust". Basically, we stuck an arm out in from of our body, made a fist, and then ran at each other. Kids.

[Hrafn]

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So you're saying it wouldn't be gentle and injury-free like jousting on horses galloping towards each other at high speeds?