The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns: I'm Eggstatic!

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Japan has introduced their experimental model car, The Pivo, which will help a lot of people back out of tight parking spaces in the future.

The Pivo is a three-seater electric car that looks like a big egg. It relies solely on wireless electronics for steering, wheels, and other parts rather than the conventional mechanical links.

This is one eggceptional automobile, although if I were driving it, I'd be worried about that 10 year old boy down the street who plays with his remote control car everyday. With wireless technology, he's sure to tap into my frequency and crash, there goes my eggmobile.

Other electronics I'd be worried about is the tv remote, one wrong click and smash. Or, worse, the garage door opener. We all must know how sensitive those frequencies are.

Come to think of it, what egghead designed this car? And, as if it's that unique. I think they've eggsaggerated how great the car is. We already have a vehicle that does a 360 degree pivot turn - it's called a tank (which is one vehicle I'd much rather drive).

Anyhow, of all the Pivo's in the world, this is the pivo for me.

May 2008

Comments

Hmm...but you can't drive it very far before you have to do a top-up.

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Posted by: Muppetlord | October 5, 2005 04:13 PM

Holy crap, check out the wheels on the babe up front, last time I saw les like that was when I watched the Ghandi movie. Yuk Yuk Yuk.

Posted by: Stevo in HCM | October 5, 2005 06:57 PM

Whoa... Looks like a high-tech golf cart on crack!

Posted by: Lingo Slinger | October 5, 2005 08:16 PM

It's pretty tempting, years ago, when I was but a mere lad, me and some friends spotted a little car in a bowling alley parking lot.

It had one door in the front, 3 wheels I think it might have been one of these

http://www.3wheelers.com/archives/archive1/ar1set1.html

It was pretty close to this one above had a door in the fron that opened up,

We looked at it then without saying a word we all looked at the parking lot bumper infront of it, looked at each other, grinned, and without saying word picked it up and set it back down astraddle the bumper.

http://www.globalindustrial.com/gcs/product/productsPerPicGroups.web?picGroupKey=775&options.parentCategoryKey=151&index=31&catSearchParams.categoryKey=1825&REQ_SUB_CAT=Parking%20Curbs#gridAnchor

Like I said, until there are LOTS of them out there, it's a pretty tempting sight, ;-)

Posted by: Dan Kauffman | October 5, 2005 09:30 PM

Too tempting years ago I and some other young hooligans spotted a tiny three wheeled car with one door in the front, we looked at it.

Looked at the wheelstop in front of it

http://www.globalindustrial.com/gcs/product/productInfo.web?infoParam.mode=1&index=31&options.parentCategoryKey=151&infoParam.itemKey=30099385

Looked back at each other grinned, and

lifted it, and put it back down straddling the parking lot bumper. ;-)

I'd wait until there were quite few on the road before I chanced it.

Posted by: Dan Kauffman | October 5, 2005 09:35 PM