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Jumping Cars
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Cars that jump, using hydraulics.
Obviously not practical for everyday driving, but handy to have in an emergency, for example dodging a child in the street or clearing a gap.
This would be better than breaking, as braking distances are quite long, but you could get airborne instantly.
(?) Lowriders
http://www.win.net/...rs/cars/hopping.htm
With terrible web design and font/colour choices, and poor quality photos. [hippo, Oct 05 2004]
(?) Turbo!
http://members.fort...riders/function.htm
Kitt specifications [silverstormer, Oct 05 2004]
Hydraulics Evolution
http://auto.howstuf...com/question294.htm
[Shz, Oct 05 2004]
[link]
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I think breaking would be quite likely. |
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Also very good for avoiding custard-filled speed bumps. |
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I'm sure I've seen something like
this - not for normal road driving
though. People do this with
modified suspension setups in
their cars (see link). |
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I recall seeing a rap music video that featured cars that bounced as they went along or stood idle. Wasn't sure if it is something the boys in the hood are doing to their buckets these days, or a special effect for the video. |
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Speed Racer used to do this weekly. I miss Chim-Chim. |
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As far as i am awaer, lowriders bounce, but don't actually take off. |
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Knight rider and the Dukes of Hazzard jumped off jumps... I am talking hydrolic, vertical jump action. |
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//Knight rider and the Dukes of Hazzard jumped off jumps//
Well you are right about the Dukes, but Kitt did actually jump/fly himself. I believe it was the Turbo Boost button...(linky) |
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What a cool site... however, it is my understanding, that the boost just made him go super fast, and therefore exaggerated any bump in the road... making him appear to fly, but not actually. |
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You're mistaken. He could most definitely jump. But then that's hardly surprising - the writers seemed to just make up any old bullshit magic technology and endow him with it. I saw an episode the other day where he exhibited the mechanical equivalent of psychokinesis, moving paperweights about and turning lamps on and off. Acting like a regular poltergeist he was. |
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If Kit had magical powers, then i cannot hope to compete with him... |
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I propose a very real solution, which grants the power of flight AND allows the user to retain sole ownership of his/her soul. |
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Ah, The Ultimate Road Rage weapon. "How do you like your cut me off Lexus now?, Punk!" |
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I've sat inside the actual KR Kit car. Having ridden in a few, I can assure you Lowriders are fun to get around in. Especially when hopping. |
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economic feasability and idea retardedness should be taken in to acount here. |
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As an idea it could be made to work... lowriders jack their back suspension right up and then bounce the front up as high as possible... it would be easy to bounce the whole car the same way. I'm not sure they can get very high on just one bounce, they build their bounce height up by bouncing repeatedly. However, it's never going to improve safety... if a kid stepped out in front of your car and you were going too fast to stop, you'd need incredibly powerful hydraulics to get you high enough to miss him/her in time. Think about it... you're then moving upwards at speed, so you're gonna be quite high up by the time you start coming down again... imagine a ton of metal dropping from 5-10 metres up. That's not safe for anybody :s
It'd be a really cool thing to do though... just admit it, you want it for the coolness factor, the safety's just an excuse ;) |
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You got me sussed [david]! |
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Baked, there are many low rider show cars that can do just that, use hydrolics to bounce, or in some cases "jump" verticly into the air |
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1) Very widely baked
2) Use spell-check |
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I think pneumatic powered would be better since its much lighter than hydrolic fluid. |
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You should probably have a five point harness and a roll cage incase you roll over upon landing. |
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[sninctown] -
1) please be more specific about the spelling mistakes
2) better yet, just fuck right off. |
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Well, since you ask so politely, "hydraulics" and "braking" (in the sense of stopping, not falling apart) are two good spellings to know. (And feel free to delete both this and the previous annotation.) |
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1) Noted and corrected (although braking is a useful word to be able to spell, I'd dispute the usefulness of being able to spell hydraulics, especially in my line of work).
2) Still stands. |
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