You could become a safe motorcyclist! I always tell new riders that it doesn't matter who is at fault in an accident, if you end up dead. Pay attention and remember that not being 'at fault' and dead is still dead.
You might want to look into President's Choice Financial no fee account. Free unlimited transactions, and no minimum balance. Not a bad deal:) I don't work for them, I moved over to them when CIBC raised their minimum a few years back.
This sounds reminiscent of the starting system used in the good old Yakovlev Yak-52 aircraft. They first started flying them in 1976 according to Wikipedia.... ah well, what is old is new again.
I seem to recall that Woody Guthrie wrote on at least one of his songbooks, in reference to 'This Land is Your Land', "This song is copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.". Ludlow Music enforces copywrite on this song even today. So sometimes things that seem to be public domain may not be.... unfortunately.
All programmming was on paper back when I did a programming course in grade 11, 1980, if memory serves correctly. There was only one computer for the entire class, a Hewlett Packard with 4k of RAM. You wrote your program on paper, then put it onto cards to be read by the card reader. You ran the cards through the card reader, and either the program worked or it didn't. You could print out your code, and then it was back to your desk to debug any errors, or to make tweaks. We were only allowed to use the keyboard for entering data which our programs might ask a user for. We tended to have few programming bugs, most often errors were from mistakes on the cards. It was a lot of fun. Oh yeh, get off my lawn:)
The Samurai was the Jimny's BIG brother. As for rolling, try a modern SUV. Actually I suspect I could roll most vehicles with a little effort... or keep them upright with a lot less effort. I drive a Suzuki Carry, and haven't managed to roll it yet. Makes a great ATV and I drive it to work throughout the winter.
Look into unsprung weight or mass as they call it on Wikipedia. Then think about the pounding those electric motors in the hubs would take, since they are unsprung. Then there is gyroscopic effect, which increases with weight, trying to tear your wheel bearings apart. Four times as many motors to fail (of course this does have the benefit of adding redundancy). Motorized hubs seem to create at least as many headaches as they might cure.
One of the problems here is the way our insurance is set up. Insuring multiple vehicles is prohibitively expensive, and we can only drive one vehicle at a time. I would like to see insuring your drivers licence for public liability/public damage. Any further insurance can go on the individual vehicles. That way I could drive the vehicle which is suitable for the task at hand, rather than trying to come up with compromise vehicles to cover all my needs. Personally I have a motorcyle (Gold Wing) and a light truck (Suzuki Carry) insured. I would like to have a small motorcycle/scooter and a fuel efficient car as well, but cannot justify the cost of insuring them. I understand that some parts of Europe insure in this manner and would dearly love to see it here.
According to a friend of mine, helicopter mechanic, they already do this to some degree. The gearbox for the tailrotor is painted with a paint which will change colours if it is goes over the maximum allowable temperature. It does not change back to its original colour after cooling down.
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You could become a safe motorcyclist! I always tell new riders that it doesn't matter who is at fault in an accident, if you end up dead. Pay attention and remember that not being 'at fault' and dead is still dead.
You might want to look into President's Choice Financial no fee account. Free unlimited transactions, and no minimum balance. Not a bad deal :) I don't work for them, I moved over to them when CIBC raised their minimum a few years back.
This sounds reminiscent of the starting system used in the good old Yakovlev Yak-52 aircraft. They first started flying them in 1976 according to Wikipedia .... ah well, what is old is new again.
I seem to recall that Woody Guthrie wrote on at least one of his songbooks, in reference to 'This Land is Your Land', "This song is copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.". Ludlow Music enforces copywrite on this song even today. So sometimes things that seem to be public domain may not be .... unfortunately.
All programmming was on paper back when I did a programming course in grade 11, 1980, if memory serves correctly. There was only one computer for the entire class, a Hewlett Packard with 4k of RAM. You wrote your program on paper, then put it onto cards to be read by the card reader. You ran the cards through the card reader, and either the program worked or it didn't. You could print out your code, and then it was back to your desk to debug any errors, or to make tweaks. We were only allowed to use the keyboard for entering data which our programs might ask a user for. We tended to have few programming bugs, most often errors were from mistakes on the cards. It was a lot of fun. Oh yeh, get off my lawn :)
The Samurai was the Jimny's BIG brother. As for rolling, try a modern SUV. Actually I suspect I could roll most vehicles with a little effort ... or keep them upright with a lot less effort. I drive a Suzuki Carry, and haven't managed to roll it yet. Makes a great ATV and I drive it to work throughout the winter.
Look into unsprung weight or mass as they call it on Wikipedia. Then think about the pounding those electric motors in the hubs would take, since they are unsprung. Then there is gyroscopic effect, which increases with weight, trying to tear your wheel bearings apart. Four times as many motors to fail (of course this does have the benefit of adding redundancy). Motorized hubs seem to create at least as many headaches as they might cure.
One of the problems here is the way our insurance is set up. Insuring multiple vehicles is prohibitively expensive, and we can only drive one vehicle at a time. I would like to see insuring your drivers licence for public liability/public damage. Any further insurance can go on the individual vehicles. That way I could drive the vehicle which is suitable for the task at hand, rather than trying to come up with compromise vehicles to cover all my needs. Personally I have a motorcyle (Gold Wing) and a light truck (Suzuki Carry) insured. I would like to have a small motorcycle/scooter and a fuel efficient car as well, but cannot justify the cost of insuring them. I understand that some parts of Europe insure in this manner and would dearly love to see it here.
Just curious, have they recently redefined the word dictator ?
According to a friend of mine, helicopter mechanic, they already do this to some degree. The gearbox for the tailrotor is painted with a paint which will change colours if it is goes over the maximum allowable temperature. It does not change back to its original colour after cooling down.