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Bombardier's Embrio: Sexier Segway?

Posted by timothy on from the for-modern-clowns dept.

Ridgelift writes "Articles at Wired News, Popular Science, and Forbes are covering Bombardier's Embrio. It's a single-wheeled, hydrogen fuel cell-powered, gyroscopically balanced concept vehicle. While the Segway tops out at 6 mph, the Embrio 'hits 35 mph in the learning mode alone.' Very cool -- looks like something straight out of 'Minority Report.'"

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  1. Embryo is sexier... by eurleif · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, Embryos don't create themselves.

    1. Re:Embryo is sexier... by mattjb0010 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Canadians will breed and multiple

      and teach English to the Americans.

  2. Perfect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is just the perfect thing for everyone who already has a motorcycle, and has been routinely frustrated with their inability to donate organs.

  3. Re:Stopping distance by mattjb0010 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just ask Dubbya.

  4. New Jingle by McCarrum · · Score: 3, Funny

    All I want for Christmas is my Embrio

    Urgh. Now there was an image I didn't want ...

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  5. Oversimplification by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    While the Segway tops out a 6 mph, the Embrio 'hits 35 mph in the learning mode alone.

    But this statement fails to mention the main objective of the Embrio's "learning mode": To instill in the trainee using adverse experience why it's a bad idea to exceed the maximum recommended operational speed of 6 mph.

  6. Re:Stopping distance by XNormal · · Score: 5, Funny

    For now though, this Embrio is still in utero-no working model yet exists.

    Imaginary vehicles don't have a stopping distance.

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  7. Re:Stopping distance by mattjb0010 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imaginary vehicles don't have a stopping distance...

    ...in R, try using C

  8. New Features? by Hexydes · · Score: 2, Funny
    Did they add the feature where people care about the Segway and are willing to buy them?

    I think that that's what was really keeping the Segways from taking off. =)

  9. Very cool -- looks like something straight out of. by nuba · · Score: 3, Funny

    Very cool -- looks like something straight out of 'South Park'". http://store.wush.net/tmp/entity.gif

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  10. Re:dupe? by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it really that hard to do?

    That would take precious seconds out of their frantic schedule. You know how much work goes into posting a paragraph-length passage that someone else wrote every few hours? I mean, where would they find the time for even those few seconds?

  11. "Pollution caused by cars" by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    it could reduce congestion and pollution caused by cars. That's almost utopian.

    Anybody who rides a motorcycle such as this EMBRIO has to breathe the exhaust of the Ford Compensator in front of him.

  12. Re:dupe? by rworne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but give it to a bunch of rednecks and you've got a whole new dimension on ways for them to kill themselves.

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  13. Re:Stopping distance by brettper · · Score: 2, Funny

    more stable (less unstable)

    Thanks for the clarification

    I always get confused about the meaning of stable