On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Knapp <magick.crow@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Great ideas. I was thinking that people would still want to travel and impress their friends with a great sports car. Also where are the smells and the wind? The sense of freedom?
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For that, I expect they’ll just have finely crafted TL-15 replicas of TL-7 Ferraris , or like that spoilt kid James T Kirk, just wreck an irreplaceable, one of a kind, 2000 year old Corvette :-)

I expect Morgan will STILL be making cars with wooden frames.

Or just TL-15 grav cars with convertible tops and flashy paint jobs. So long as there are machines that go fast and humans with testosterone poisoning, there will be gofastdieyoung vehicles.

Search the archives for Famille Spofulam designs, like the suborbital pogostick, the supersonic grav bike and a 4 or 500KPH skateboard. At some point in time there was an online collection of all the Famille oeuvre. Ian?

Simulating off road behavior or high speeds, when you’re not actually doing that will lead to some serious disconnects between reality and what the driver is experiencing.

There was a top gear episode where the boys played a driving sim game on a particular track with particular cars, then set out to show how good they were on the real thing after all that simulator training :-) They were right and properly humiliated…

Simulating the sensations via ‘grave' plates :-) will have a similar effect I expect, in that the actual vehicle will not be behaving in the fashion their senses tell them it is.

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