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A Full-Size Remote-Control Car

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the standard-passtime-out-west dept.

Ant writes "A video clip (Windows Media Player required) the construction, operation, and demolition. It is a real-life remote control car with Knight Rider references!" The video works fine for me in xine (though sound dropped out for a bit). This car is not yet ready for the Las Vegas run, but if they hook up with some AI reseachers ...

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  1. Look! No hands! by Eudial · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jay! You can finally program AND drive at the same time!

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  2. It's been done by Drunken+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing we haven't seen before. Apparently the British are about five years ahead of us in the cool gadget department.

    The site appears to have been screwed up. Anyone else getting a strange redirect?

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  3. Knight Rider by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is a real-life remote control car with Knight Rider references!

    As long as those references include Bonnie and April but leave out Michael and Devon, then they'll be OK.

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    1. Re:Knight Rider by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 2, Funny

      funny - I don't remember Michael Knight urinating on KIT, but I could have missed that episode...

  4. Re:CMU Already Did This... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Of course there's someone at the driver seat in case that there's something wrong"

    Pussies.

  5. Free Delivery by PhatKat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think if I ever had a car like this, I would only purchase from businesses that would come out front and drop whatever it was I was buying into the passenger side window. Having a car like this would be like having an almost free delivery service for any place in town....

  6. Wow! by chrisseaton · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could really do some damage with one of these - think Carmagedon in the centre of a city - and you'd stay pretty undetected. There was a "Murder She Wrote" episode about that once.

    1. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      you watched "Murder She Wrote" ?!!?

  7. Hey by Treeluvinhippy · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the same car I use to drive to work you insensitive clod!

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  8. "Windows Media Player required" by Andreas(R) · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is Windows Media Player? It doesn't come with SuSE...

    1. Re:"Windows Media Player required" by badansible · · Score: 2, Funny

      That 'Windows' is a typo I think.

  9. But Really cant wait by ExEleven · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cant wait till I can go order takeaway without having to do much at all.

    Or just playing games with the cops.

  10. Daddy, Daddy, I want one. Why CAN'T I HAVE ONE? by hillct · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget those micro-racers, those little tiny remote control cars that made a perfect fad gist over christmas last year. I can see it now. Every 10 year old kid will want one of these put in their christmas stocking. "But dad, It's not a real car! IT's remote control! Joey across the street has a remote control car! Why can't I?"

    There is the valid point that by giving your kit an RC car of this size, you'd never have to give him another christmas gift for the rest of his life. It would also be an effective deterrent to potential playground bullies, knowing that your kid has the ability to run them down and get away clean.

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    1. Re:Daddy, Daddy, I want one. Why CAN'T I HAVE ONE? by arvindn · · Score: 4, Funny
      It would also be an effective deterrent to potential playground bullies, knowing that your kid has the ability to run them down and get away clean.

      What you're missing is that the playground bullies will have upgraded to remote controlled SUVs ;^)

  11. Knight Rider References? by Txurlo · · Score: 3, Funny

    That sounds cool, of course, but there's a thing... my name is not Michael, is this thing going to listen to me?
    Can't wait to say 'Kitt, take us home' :)

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  12. Coming soon... by garoush · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... a full size remote control girlfriend for geeks.

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  13. A verb is an action word. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Funny


    From the Slashdot story: "A video clip (Windows Media Player required) the construction, operation, and demolition."

    A verb an action word. I know verbs minor details to a Slashdot editor, but they important to others of us.

  14. KITT by Construct+X · · Score: 3, Funny

    "What are you inserting into my exhaust pipe Micheal?"

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