Seconded. This is a wonderful idea. I've tried it on and off for decades but it never seemed to last. There was always some thing or other that broke it to the point that just using autohide was better. If they can make it really work it'll be great but that top bar needs to be on the right.
Or better yet, the other way around.
Oh and they both need to be wide enough that the widgets remain useful. And there needs to be room for optional text labels as icon-only buttons are both unintuitive and nearly useless on complex devices.
I'd still be on Verizon if they could actually get their service to stay up. It went out two days before Christmas last year. Given that it was the season I gave them two weeks to get it back up and they couldn't manage it. It had done something similar before and it turned out to be intermittent line noise coming from a particular source near a local restaurant. It took them several hours to track it down last time but they did fix it. This time they switched out the bridge, tested the line for 5 minutes and pronounced it done. It dropped out about half an hour after they left and stayed down until noon the next day. I could not get them to do a more thorough examination.
Thank god for Charter. I've heard bad things about them too but the connection does actually work now which is a distinct improvement.
That second paragraph sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact it would be a good idea in general. That first paragraph sounds like you made the same mistake Amazon did and the third supports that conclusion. Most of the people that I've seen make that argument are trying to get anything and everything 'homosexual-related' dumped into the adult category. This includes everything from John Holmes material to Martina Navratilova's autobiography and everything else that involves gays as more than porn or a fetish.
This tends to support the conclusion that it was a glitch as I doubt that Amazon would do that without trying to curry favor with those demographics that would like it.
Why? I would have expected under/oversteer to depend more on weight distribution and on acceleration than on wheel configuration.
It does. It's nothing fundamental it's just that it's usually more practical to put the engine nearest the end with 2 wheels.
Most 3 wheelers with the 2-front configuration are also front engined front wheel drive in order to reduce costs and weight and to help keep the center of gravity low.
Most of the rear wheel drive 3-wheelers Ive seen are similar for the same reasons.
There are exceptions though, the Scorpion and the T-Rex that someone else mentioned further down, for instance. The designers responsible for the T-Rex managed to get a low CoG with a rear-engined rear drive design.
"Hey GM, if you want to get another gov't loan, you have to do this partnership with Segway..."
Will create the perfect urban vehicle that sells as much as the original Segway does.
Why not just have GM resell these... Maybe bring the Oldsmobile name back just for them...
That's probably not far from the reasoning behind this. It does look a lot like a Hoveround for the road. They even point out the aging baby boomer demographic.
Two wheels forward, one back ("tadpole") is a very stable design (assuming a reasonable CG -- low and near the front)... but rear steering is not. It's hard to get used to and is very prone to oversteer.
Hm, yes it would be if it weren't managed somehow. An electronically assisted system would relieve that problem and leave you with increased maneuverability for parking. It'd also jack up the weight and cost though.
Damn, that's some machine! Nice. I remember the old Trihawks. I got the opportunity to drive one once and it was nice but compared to that it looks to be positively sedate.
I'd bet that thing likes to be steered with the throttle.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.