Is there any personal transportation device that doesn't look ridiculous?

[Mike64]

Lay off the coke.

That's not my brain on coke, that's just my brain on whatever neurotransmitters get secreted when one is bored and randomly surfing web forums instead of getting off one's ass and doing something productive...

 

[Mike64]

I bet you're a blast at parties And I was referencing the actual, fictional hoverboard, that was actually cool, not whatever garbage has/hasn't caught on since then.

At my advanced age, I sometimes forget where I am... As I wrote earlier, "I thought - foolishly so it appears - that the thread was about actually viable options".

For your age though, maybe we should stick with more mundane fare

That'd work too, but I'd hate to see the pooper-scooper bags...

 

[NetWareHead]

 

[John Connor]

HAHAHA And we have a winner!

 

[nakedfrog]

No, you SAW a couple kids. Where did you go to school? My teachers would have failed me for using such poor grammar.

Well...

 

[John Connor]

Well...

Well, at least someone reads my sad state of affairs. Gees.

But all the hail to the word police.

 

[nakedfrog]

I was actually wondering earlier what they call grammar nazis in Germany.

 

[BurnItDwn]

My personal transportation device is called a Subaru. It's a wagon. I don't think it looks particularly ridiculous, though it's not nearly as beautiful as many other personal transportation devices... My favorite of course being the SR71 Blackbird or the SATURN 5 Rocket System. But, they are too rich for my blood

 

[PricklyPete]

 

[ctbaars]

He-hung ... :::Snicker:::

 

[madoka]

What's the problem with bicycles ?

My situation is this. I'm planning a trip to my vacation house. It is located about 2 miles from two major shopping complexes with thousands of stores. Two miles is too short to take a taxi and a bike would be inconvenient to find a space for because there are no bike racks there. After walking around the complex all day, it's really a drag to walk back another two miles, especially after a few days of the same schedule. I get completely pooped out. So something really portable and lightweight would be great to have. The closest I've seen is this, but it looks like Hyundai won't ever make it:

 

[sdifox]

My situation is this. I'm planning a trip to my vacation house. It is located about 2 miles from two major shopping complexes with thousands of stores. Two miles is too short to take a taxi and a bike would be inconvenient to find a space for because there are no bike racks there. After walking around the complex all day, it's really a drag to walk back another two miles, especially after a few days of the same schedule. I get completely pooped out. So something really portable and lightweight would be great to have. The closest I've seen is this, but it looks like Hyundai won't ever make it:

Uber? Can-Am Spyder?

 

[brianmanahan]

I don't know. I still think umbrellas are douchey.

that's bizarre

 

[John Connor]

He-hung ... :::Snicker:::

Google maps? WTF!

 

[Red Squirrel]

What the hell is that thing? I mean, of course I can see that is says "Hover Board", and I'm assuming "no, not really", but exactly what is it and how does it "work"? (And yes, I'm afraid I am too lazy to Google "Mattel hover board".)

It does pretty much what it says it does. I think it uses a high voltage static electric generator to produce antigravity, but I'm honestly not sure how it works. They've been around for a long time but never really took off for some reason. I think the battery life was poor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_R1HUnH7EA

 

[John Connor]

 

[GagHalfrunt]

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

My situation is this. I'm planning a trip to my vacation house. It is located about 2 miles from two major shopping complexes with thousands of stores. Two miles is too short to take a taxi and a bike would be inconvenient to find a space for because there are no bike racks there. After walking around the complex all day, it's really a drag to walk back another two miles, especially after a few days of the same schedule. I get completely pooped out. So something really portable and lightweight would be great to have. The closest I've seen is this, but it looks like Hyundai won't ever make it:

They make bike locking mechanisms which hang the bike on light poles. Surely there are light poles in the area.

 

[Mike64]

Now that really is, personal, and no doubt, transporting... ("And for everyone else," there's the back-stroke...)

It does pretty much what it says it does.

I admittedly didn't spend much time looking at the various reviews/write-ups that came up when I Googled "Mattel hoverboard", but the ones I did see pretty much all seemed to say "it doesn't work. Period." And for that matter, I can't really imagine a consumer device that sold by Mattel for a little over $100 producing enough of any kind of force strong enough to overcome gravity to even lift, much less "move", anything heavier than, say, a mouse...

 

[gorcorps]

So. You really made me Google it... ( i mean, yes, I got the general idea from the pic you posted, but still had no idea what that Mattel thing was all about, and I thought - foolishly so it appears - that the thread was about actually viable options... But I digress...)

Frankly, even the probably-non-measurable number of nanocalories it took do that weren't really worth the effort.<sigh> What can I say... if not immediately dashing to the nearest movie theater to see a (freaking) Michael J. Fox movie about time travel in my junior year of college requires the turning in of a card of any sort, I'd consider it a badge of honor. (And when I did eventually see it, I was old enough to think it was "cute", albeit mostly ridiculous...)

Now, if we'd been talking positronic robot brains or lightsabers, I might've caught on, even if I'm a little too old to have ever wanted, much less owned, a non-functional pseudo-version of even one of the latter... And for that matter, even by 1977 and thereabouts, I was several years too old to have been caught dead in a ditch owning a model Starfighter, a Darth Vader helmet, or any of that goofy paraphernalia. (By then I did however already own a few years of Byte back-issues and at least a year's worth of 73 Magazine, if that counts for anything. And at this point, I've totally forgotten when Dr. Dobb's Journal first came out, but I think it was thereabouts or not much later, and I had a number of the earlier issues of that, too.)

I don't know what's worse... when I thought you'd never seen the movie, or after you admitted you've seen it and still didn't know wtf he was talking about.

 

[Thebobo]

Damn I was looking for a gif anim for this thread but they were all g-rated. Well played!

 

[quikah]

My situation is this. I'm planning a trip to my vacation house. It is located about 2 miles from two major shopping complexes with thousands of stores. Two miles is too short to take a taxi and a bike would be inconvenient to find a space for because there are no bike racks there. After walking around the complex all day, it's really a drag to walk back another two miles, especially after a few days of the same schedule. I get completely pooped out. So something really portable and lightweight would be great to have. The closest I've seen is this, but it looks like Hyundai won't ever make it:

FYI: Swagtron makes one, probably some others. https://swagtron.com/electric-scooter/

 

[BurnItDwn]

Not ideal, but maybe a moped or a scooter would do what you want. Something that you can park in a regular parking space and use a key

Little 50cc Yamaha should do the trick ...
https://www.yamahamotorsports.com/scooter/models/vino-classic

 

[pete6032]

You could get a folding bike and carry it around with you, or put it in a locker.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

This would be pretty sweet. $350 with free shipping (sorry no Prime).

• Product Dimensions: 38 x 22 x 20 inches ; 42 pounds

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071DPSXS...fn&pd_rd_r=KP8CQ9DAR74VKDQ6R5W0&pd_rd_w=Y4A6v