At 08:16 PM 12/29/02 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:39:39PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:> If it goes about 10 mph, unless it's a heckuva lot more comfortable to > stand on for long periods than it looks like it would be, it would be > limited to trips of less than, oh 5 miles. (8 km for Alberto.) So > where do I go frequently that is less than 5 miles away? Actually, that number is better than you think. The battery limits the range to 5-10 miles before a recharge.
I was thinking about _standing_ essentially still on the thing for half an hour or more.
> BTW: How well does it do on hills? I live on a hill which is hard to > get They aren't available until March, so we only have their word. They say it is fine on moderate hills. The video doesn't show it going on any hills.
Well, I have certainly lived and worked on some rather steep hills -- ones which, as I said earlier, an ordinary car couldn't get up when it snowed -- and I have to wonder how well it would do climbing them even in good weather.
Another thought: the last February I lived in Provo, every morning for a week at 8am when I went into work the temperature was -13�F. I didn't even try to start my car, but took the bus (had to walk a couple of blocks at each end of the ride). Would I really have wanted to roll down the street with the wind in my face? Not to mention the bumpy ice surface covering the sidewalks where snow had been shoveled into piles or walked on, then re-frozen rock-hard during the night . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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