I think people are missing the point. It appears this is a design project for high school students. Like it or hate it, the quality of work is impressive. I would much rather have kids designing and building than watching TV and playing video games. You may not like this one, but I think they are developing valuable real-world skills. Good job!
valuable real-world skills I don't think anyone has anything against, but people generally seeing this thing are thinking of valuable real-world products.
It fails at being a car, and it fails even worse at being a motorcycle.
Just the fact that you can stick your legs out through HOLES in the side of the thing means that you are TRAPPED if there is ever an accident. If they are hit from the side, their legs are as good as broken, and then the swelling will make it impossible to get them out of the bike without cutting them out, which means they can't be dragged to safety if a fire starts. Oh, and it uses a battery, not only is he trapped near a fire, he's trapped near a fire, near a battery. Thanks, but I'd rather be hurled from a motorcycle at 80mph and take my chances with the helmet and neck brace.
And that's just the safety scenario. that's not even getting into the issues with only being able to reach 60mph. Sure that may be enough to stick to the speed limit, but 80% of drivers go faster than that, and not being able to keep up with traffic would make them very small obstacles in the road.
Then we get into the social flaws, which boil down to a very simple issue. People do not buy motorcycles to save money, they buy them because THEY LOOK COOL. This does not. This has every dork factor of a voltswagon beetle, but magnified by 100.
You and I apparently have differing definitions of "real world" skills. Developing useful skills, sure. At least they are capable of designing, but it isn't real world skills until they are capable of designing something that could work.
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I think people are missing the point. It appears this is a design project for high school students. Like it or hate it, the quality of work is impressive. I would much rather have kids designing and building than watching TV and playing video games. You may not like this one, but I think they are developing valuable real-world skills. Good job!
valuable real-world skills I don't think anyone has anything against, but people generally seeing this thing are thinking of valuable real-world products.
It fails at being a car, and it fails even worse at being a motorcycle.
Just the fact that you can stick your legs out through HOLES in the side of the thing means that you are TRAPPED if there is ever an accident. If they are hit from the side, their legs are as good as broken, and then the swelling will make it impossible to get them out of the bike without cutting them out, which means they can't be dragged to safety if a fire starts. Oh, and it uses a battery, not only is he trapped near a fire, he's trapped near a fire, near a battery. Thanks, but I'd rather be hurled from a motorcycle at 80mph and take my chances with the helmet and neck brace.
And that's just the safety scenario. that's not even getting into the issues with only being able to reach 60mph. Sure that may be enough to stick to the speed limit, but 80% of drivers go faster than that, and not being able to keep up with traffic would make them very small obstacles in the road.
Then we get into the social flaws, which boil down to a very simple issue. People do not buy motorcycles to save money, they buy them because THEY LOOK COOL. This does not. This has every dork factor of a voltswagon beetle, but magnified by 100.
You and I apparently have differing definitions of "real world" skills. Developing useful skills, sure. At least they are capable of designing, but it isn't real world skills until they are capable of designing something that could work.