So, what makes this still a car?

[rogerdil]

This is a car:

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/honda-creates-butt-steered-segway-uni-cub-rolling-182012205.html

[Adami]

This is a car:

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/honda-creates-butt-steered-segway-uni-cub-rolling-182012205.html

Well it's an automobile, but it's no more a car than a motorcycle is.

[BlobVanDam]

I'm not seeing it labeled a car anywhere.

I like it. I'm going to make a futuristic scifi movie just so I can stick these in there.

[kirksnosehair]

I'm not seeing it labeled a car anywhere.

I like it. I'm going to make a futuristic scifi movie just so I can stick these in there.

Third paragraph in the linked story:

The British car will attempt to set the mark as it breaks the land speed record on a dried out lake bed in South Africa's Northern Cape late next year.

[BlobVanDam]

I'm not seeing it labeled a car anywhere.

I like it. I'm going to make a futuristic scifi movie just so I can stick these in there.

Third paragraph in the linked story:

The British car will attempt to set the mark as it breaks the land speed record on a dried out lake bed in South Africa's Northern Cape late next year.

Are we reading/getting different stories? That is not at all on the page I'm seeing, not even with a text search for "car".

[Orbert]

There is confusion.  I'm seeing a story about Segways with butt-steering.

[BlobVanDam]

There is confusion.  I'm seeing a story about Segways with butt-steering.

Yeah, me too. This is the entire article I get-

No automaker keeps quite as many strange side projects afloat as Honda, which has everything from jet planes to walking robots underway in its engineering studios. On Tuesday, Honda revealed its plans for another company invention, a rolling stool it now calls the Uni-Cub which users steer by the seat of their pants. One can only hope for a racing version.

Designed to mimic the speed and height of walking, the Uni-Cub's lithium batteries power a trick wheel that can move any direction. Using sensors on the seats, riders simply shift their weight in the direction they wish to travel -- there's also a smartphone control app --  and the unit rides high so that the riders have eye contact with people not cool enough to glide around the office up to 3.7 miles on a charge.

Honda says it will begin testing the Uni-Cub next month with a Japanese research museum. But like all great inventions, the true value of the Uni-Cub may lie well beyond the inventor's concept. if Honda really wants to try it out, I'd suggest either a college dorm or a preschool, someplace where riders will test the extremes of the self-balancing system. A drag race with a fire extinguisher-powered office chair would also be welcome.

Then I get a nifty promo video of Japanese people zipping around an office on aforementioned butt segway.

[Orbert]

(How do those Asian girls steer when they have no butts?)

[rogerdil]

 

[rumborak]

How useless. What I would like is a small platform I can stand on that does the same thing. That way I could look like a badly animated cartoon character.

rumborak