Holy crap, the future COP?

[SupraMario]

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

i cant tell if it is photoshop or if it is made by a 3d software, or if it is actually real. i watched the vids of the bot moving to stop a car and it looked sorta real, but the first pick had me wondering. its still cool looking.:aigo:

 

[Squid699]

the vid of it stopping the car didnt work - but the other vids do look pretty real

 

[Orion ZyGarian]

Quite old, and fake. I believed it too, then you have to think about companies like Toyota and Honda who are spending millions working on their respective robots and this embarrasses what they have done. Not going to happen

 

[streetknight]

need quicktime to see it.
it looks cool but would not want it to go haywire, ppl will die.

 

[SupraMario]

Quite old, and fake. I believed it too, then you have to think about companies like Toyota and Honda who are spending millions working on their respective robots and this embarrasses what they have done. Not going to happen

Y fake? there is no proof. thats the problem. people have been known to make things that other wise cost compaines $$$ to even get a glance at. you have to think when compaines say they have put so much $$ into research about %40 goes to research, the rest goes to paying some CEO and other high bosses and company supervisors ect: to sit on their ass.
but i can see where u say it is fake im just not going to beileve it is fake or real until it is proven wrong or correct.

 

[Orion ZyGarian]

Well for one thing, there was a little cutout thing for it in Motor Trend initially and they paid Motor Trend to put it in there...someone asked them if it was real and they said all that they know was that they were paid to put it in and were hinting that it wasnt real.

I've seen it on other forums as well, and I forget how, but IIRC it was proven fake.

Anyways, look at the dates: 2001. Dont you think it'd have been remotely concidered for mass production by now? Wouldnt we be seeing these?

 

[SupraMario]

yes the dates did seem strange that it wouldnt be updated in over 2 years, but if you got my point in the above post is alot of peeps, tell me never beleive wat u see on the net, well remeber that 2 wheeled scooter? the one that balances while u stand on it. i found a site posting self leveling stuff exactly for that scooter and showed it to some friends and geuss what they said it was fake. liek 2 years latter bam it was on the market.

 

[Orion ZyGarian]

The segway?

 

[shaeff]

heh, yeah the segway. they rent them out on the boardwalk in maryland. i remember when i went to disney world in florida, (when i was in 4th grade! i'm two years past graduating now!!!) and everyone was amazed by them. now they're all over. its really strange.

-shaeff

 

[SupraMario]

The segway?

yea, if found some of the parts and a mock up drawing of the actual thing,:biglaugh: and everyone it seemed i showed it to was like, its impossible it will fall forward or u will tip backwards.

 

[Chad]

i remember hearing about all this stuff quite awhile ago a couple summers ago actually the robot story was to promote the mini cooper or something and later this magazine came out with this article on basily they made up this whole sci fi story shit or somthign its stupid when u think about it ill get u more info about it im sure im right but correct me if im wrong

 

[SupraMario]

your probably right i looked at a couple of those images for a while and noticed a lot of PS technics i use when i PS. so more than likely some dude had a lot of time on his hands and took the thing way to far.