Elderly Drivers VS Teen Drivers

James Bent — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:00:02 +0000

Whether you think older or younger drivers are safer on the road, you may want to read more to find out for yourself. The statistics are surprising: nearly double the number of men are involved in fatal accidents than women, and teens may not be the ones you need to watch behind the wheel. Here is a surprising look at driving-related fatality statistics.

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Full-Size Drivable Replicas of Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder: the Future is Now!

James Bent — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:00:25 +0000

There’s a theory that science fiction books and movies shape the future meaning that they are creating objects of the future realia and once something similar is being invented in real life, people will know how these innovations should look and how they need to be named…

Thus, we already know how the vehicles from the future are going to work, sound and look like: they will be called “landspeeders” and look something like this:

“Landspeeder” was the name of a craft Star Wars Luke Skywalker was using to travel above a world’s surface.

And the future is actually starting now! The Landspeeder appealed to the public so much, that there appeared several full-scale running replicas in real life, and here are a few of them (none of them is yet able to hover aloft on a cushion of antigravity but they do look cool!):

Landspeeder Replica Sold on eBay

The full-size replica was sold on eBay for about 13 000 USD which looks like well worth the money:

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Landspeeder by Daniel Deutsch

According to the description, this Landspeeder created by Daniel Deutsch is powered by an electric motor that is able to take the vehicle to a top speed of 25 mph and that can travel for several miles on a single battery change.

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