On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Bruce Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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> On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Knapp <xxxxxx@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 :-)
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A TL15 replica of a TL-7 Ferrari..
What if you use TL15 materials and techniques on the engine, get it
down in size some, and put a single grav module under the hood as
well?
Add a full sensor system and a robot brain who's sole purpose in life
is to monitor for the accident that's about to happen, and then
override vehicle controls and apply grav thrust to prevent it?
If the car slides into a skid, and the bot detects it's going to
intersect a tree, it overrides the gas pedal, brake pedal, and
steering, and puts 1g lateral thrust into pushing the vehicle into a
path where there's no impacts.
If you drive off a cliff, it uses 1g vertical thrust to have the car
just hang there, then slowly/gently descend to ground level.
Etc