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  1. 19th April 2011, 11:38 #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    That actually happened on one of the electric bike races a while ago, guy stops, flicks some switches, hoons off again. Pretty sure it wasn't running windows though. Mind you at least when a computer system goes offline it shuts down, instead of just carrying on and ploughing into shit.
    Bit of a worry if said system is running your flying machine at the time, can't see gravity waiting for the reboot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    As Mully says, they also take a bunch of drivers intent on taking out a motorcyclist before breakfast, and locks them up together in a big metal cage. Most excellent.
    We could get rid of two road menaces for the price of one, if the exhaust pipe of the bus was re-directed into the cabin.
    How can we get cyclists in there as well?
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    Quote Originally Posted by scissorhands View Post
    A kids kick scooter on the footpath looks like the gueyist way to go.
    segway nothing gayer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bald Eagle View Post
    Bit of a worry if said system is running your flying machine at the time, can't see gravity waiting for the reboot.
    That's where the new tech comes in, it can crash and reboot over 50 times a second! safe
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve View Post
    god could you just imagine the people we have driving round on our roads now, up in the air??? If jet packs take off (excuse the pun) I might have to switch to being a cager, I don't want any 80kg person carrying a 20kg jet-pack falling on & damaging my bike
    most likely people to take up jetpacks would be a sub-group from the bikers. Fluck it would be dangerous up there
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    We could get rid of two road menaces for the price of one, if the exhaust pipe of the bus was re-directed into the cabin.
    How can we get cyclists in there as well?
    Make them ride alongside. They will either be taken out at turns, or eat the exhaust gases. Oh wait, that would be going into the cabin.

    Not to worry, the buses create so much, you could spread it around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    They will ... eat the exhaust gases. Oh wait, that would be going into the cabin.

    Not to worry, the buses create so much, you could spread it around.
    If anyone survives inside the cabin, they will be permanently marked for life by the coating of soot they will receive!
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