h a l f b a k e r yIt might be better to just get another gerbil.
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These would be kind of like the
things on the front of trains. They
would be fairly large (maybe car-
sized) ramps that extended from
the
front, back, and possibly the sides
of
your vehicle. In the event of an
incoming car with high velocity,
they
would simply drive right over you,
and vice-versa if you were the one
who lost control. You could also
have
free-spinning wheels on top of your
car to make it easier to slide under
the guy ahead of you, should he
happen to be higher up than you
are.
Of course, these cars would be built
with a strong internal structure that
could take the weight applied to
them. The danger would be if you
came upon a car with their ramps at
the same height as yours (crunch).
Alternatively, you could use those
VTOL thrusters and a radar system
instead of ramps. If a massive
object
was about to collide with you, the
onboard computer would detect it
and FOOM! You would quickly shoot
up into the air, just barely avoiding
it
and make a harmless splashdown in
a nearby lake, if available.
HB: Roly Poly Cars
http://www.halfbake.../Roly_20Poly_20Cars
similar [Laughs Last, Oct 21 2004]
HB: ramped cars
http://www.halfbake.../idea/ramped_20cars
very similar [Laughs Last, Oct 21 2004]
[link]
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The front one drives you over the next car. The back one
should leave you under the former car. |
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The are however several problems with this system. When
there's a sudden stop in back of a bridge and you're the 5'th
car you'll go high enough to hit the bridge. (If all stop at the
same time. |
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If you're going too fast you be airborne above the car in
front of you and land on the roof of the unsuspecting car
ahead, standing patiently in the traffic jam that you didn't
see. |
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The young generation will be shooting each other into the
air purposefully. |
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If everybody stops together and their's a "chain crash" there
will be a domino pile of three cars one on the other. The
fourth car will topple all four of them over onto the next
car. |
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