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Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference
not5150 writes "The inventor of the electric 'KillaCycle" motorcycle was taken to the hospital for x-rays after demonstrating the vehicle to reporters. Bill Dube, a government scientist during the day and bike builder at night, attempted a burnout in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center during the Wired NextFest fair. Fueled by the "most powerful" lithium-ion batteries in the world, the bike accelerated uncontrollably into another car. There's a video interview (thankfully before the crash) and footage of Dube crashing."
My first thought was that he ran over the extension lead.
Does what it says on the tin.
and vice versa
A product that can actually live up to it's name.
Is it just me, or did everyone get the motorcycle clip from "PeeWee's Great Adventure" stuck in their heads upon reading that description?
The motorcyclist was using Sony cells and also suffered a bad burn to the groin.
That's why Professor Frink's motorcycle flies through the air -- no cars to hit.
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Frink tests his new flying motorcycle.
Frink: Hello, son. You want to try the flying motorcycle I just invented?
Bart: No time.
Frink: Okay.
Later, Bart loses his skateboard in the wet cement.
Bart: I could sure use that flying motorcycle now.
Frink flies by.
Frink: You had your chance. Whoa-hai.
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... turning to the 3-D map, we see an unmistakable con
"I'm normally the crew chief and the owner, I don't ride it."
I was already going "oh dear..."
As a scientist, he should have known better than to not wear a helmet....
Calling the thing "KillaCycle" probably wasn't the smartest of ideas either. It sounds more like the title of a low budget horror movie...
A dick who makes his own decisions and deals with the consequences.
I'm aware that's a synonym for freedom loving.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Balls... and heart where his mouth is and all that.
:-)
Thankfully it wasn't that bad a crash !
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what? less than a second in 0-60??? what does that mean?
Max.
For a while, we have had electric cars and motorcycles that could go fast and reasonably far. Being able to crash them stupidly was probably the final thing needed to make them a success. And now that electric bikes have grown up to this level, linux on the desktop cannot be far off, can it?
No sparks? No flames? Dudew, you should have added some pyros to the bike, even if you never intended it to move, to give people something to photograph. Same reason early computers were dressed in lights. Sheesh, talk about a missed opporutinity.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
offer words of encouragement to our latest Darwin hopeful. There's always next year. If electric motors can't get the job done think...rocket engine.
But come on buddy, a little common sense, and remember you're a role model. *You* might have known what you're doing but lots of idiot teenagers would have been watching the footage of you doing this gig and other ones similar to it. They might take home the message that it's ok not to wear helmet and body armour. The fact that something did go wrong showed that you weren't completely in control.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!!!???
I can't believe that got by my works proxy-server.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
I must say, I've never seen a slang nazi before.
Advanced users are users too!
And yes, I'm serious, not mocking.
How about that! The first slashdot poster to have a chance at a woman...
Can we all just agree that he's a dick, and then everyone else can argue about why he's qualified later?
I dunno. Probably something about parsecs.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
What sort of a dick rides a bike without a helmet?
They call that sort of dick "organ donor."
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
You're searching for dicks?
Not that there's anything wrong with that...