Damn dude. Best of wishes.
When rolling down a 1/2 mile steep hill, I've managed to get my $250 hybrid bike up to 39MPH. Can't QUITE break 40, but 39 is with the whole frame shuddering and wobbling in a pretty frakkin scary way anyway, so I've never dared push it any further. I'm also carrying about 20 pounds of gear (change of clothes, computer, etc). A "real" $1200 unladen road bike would probably bust 45 fairly easily down the same hill, if you could find a cyclist stupid enough to try it.
If he spent an extra $100 on shoes, he might make 46, possibly even 47 if he dropped an extra $500 shoes made of mousefartium or whatever ultralight material is in vogue right now. (I use jogging sneakers and pedal baskets).
So, "max speed" of my bike (if I were selling it as a concept car) would be "around 50MPH", and the road bike would be "around 55MPH".
Your apparent accuracy obviously shows that your marketing skills need work.
Given that, this device probably really maxes out at about 2MPH, and that's for a Japanese citizen. Not known for excessive height. Put my 6'+ American frame on that bad boy, he's gonna have a more little trouble staying upright.
Now, overall, I like this idea if it could get up to about 10MPH, especially with as small as it folds. "But, wait," I hear you saying, "there are folding bicycles, too, and they have larger wheels and no need for a recharge! And they'll probably be 1/10 the cost of this thing!"
Oh, yeah, you're right. Never mind.
The solution is to give in an AI, and give it the personality of a 2 or 3 year old toddler. Every couple blocks it will suddenly stop and scream "No! I don't want to go anymore! Carry me!". That way you'd get a nice mix of convenience and unplanned physical exercise.
Perhaps you should work out the numbers a little more carefully.
They say that you can go to Thailand and have sex in a statistically similar way to this group of people, and "only" have 0.9% chance of getting HIV. I very much doubt the entire study population went out and had frequent sex with random strangers for three years.
Why in the world would anyone ban hoodies, and how would they stay in business if they actively enforced such a ban? Seriously, that's like banning jeans in your store.
Not quite the same. Most store security cameras are located at head height or higher, making the faces of people wearing hoodies nearly invisible. I don't know about the UK, but in the US, the courts are over-worked enough that the police are likely to drop any shoplifting case unless there is solid evidence that the person they have in custody actually tried to steal something. Anyone caught shoplifting in a store wearing a hoodie is unlikely to be prosecuted, unless they did it right in front of a security guard, so banning them is an understandable move.
geez, what did people do before facebook to let groups of friends know about important events in their life? i'm stumped...
I forgot about him, you're right. He was in fact not a bad Governor, although he did do a few things I didn't like (closing the beer tents at the State Fair was one).
So it's OK to listen outside your bedroom window and record that, but not use a laser to do so?
The difference between these 12 states and others is that the others allow only one party to know the recording is going on.
I believe in all cases, recording a conversation you are not obviously present at is wiretapping (or some other name thereof)
Maybe the REAL insight here is that I should get a police job and then retire from it. That way EVERYONE would want to be my friend and I'd finally be popular!
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."