Bob Lazar, is that you?
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Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
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Re: Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
#102One Russian youtuber put an APU onto an old BMW with two configurations, with exhaust off the trunk (https://youtu.be/O2azaxhO6U8?t=362), but also connecting it directly to the clutch of the gearbox (https://youtu.be/gcJCY8kXEkw?t=199)
English article on thedrive https://www.thedrive.com/news/24280/some-russians-built-a-mi...
Re: Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
#103I don't want to start another "SF vs Miami/Austin rest of the US" but! An awesome thing in the Bay-Area is all the insane stuff you get on eBay and Craigslist. I bought a Velodyne VLP-16 LIDAR for my mobile robot side project and met up with a guy in SF. He had a startup that ended up using vision only so they sold off their LIDARs.
Miami people don’t have the same hobbies as the rest of the country does. Shipping cross-country is the only way I’ve found to sustain the hobbies I picked up in other parts of the country.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advertised as street legal in the post.
Sort of. It's advertised as legal with the gasoline engine. I take it "then, when you want to have some fun" means "when the Police aren't around." > The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine then, when you want to have some fun, spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine).
It has a license plate on it.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now I have to ask, what kind of side project requires such a high quality sensor?
I think particular robot side projects, if you can afford it, make use of LIDAR partly because it makes dealing with things much easier than the amount of time invested attempting a vision-based system. It's been a long time but I remember lidar being common (or at least a divide between rich/poor college clubs) a decade ago in competitions like http://www.igvc.org/
Oh definitely. I brought one of the first stereoscopic camera robots there. It was very clear we werent in the same financial support league but we did well I think our second year on there.
Re: Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
#106More info: http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
Response from the hot rod magazines has been slow. One editor told me that is because I didn't use anything they advertise.
In case anyone didn't already know what gets ink in trade press.
Re: Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be cool from an engineering perspective, but it's fucking stupid from a "there are other people on the road who's lives are now in danger" perspective.
Maybe. There are certainly places where you can find long straight runs of highway with no on ramps. Do that in the middle of the night and you are unlikely to encounter another vehicle.
Go to a racetrack.
Unlikely isn't good enough.
Re: Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
#108 But how does it reverse? That’s what I’d like to know!
Re: Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
#109Any other old-timers remember the "JATO Rocket Car" posting in Dawrin Awards on Usenet? From Wikipedia entry: You all know about the Darwin Awards – it's the annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to t…
Shame it's not true, makes for a good story. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carmageddon/
I remember laughing my head off at a dinner party in 1994 when someone told the story.