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10 Experimental Transportation Devices We Saw This Year
Forget driverless cars, there are more interesting and potentially deadlier ways to move people
While everyone from Tesla to Uber to Google is working on driverless cars, there are plenty of inventors who aren't interested in roadgoing vehicles at all. Here are some of the stranger inventions, experiments and people-moving prototypes we've seen this year.
Enter a caption (optional)French Architect Creates Spider-like Personal Off-Road Vehicle:
Enter a caption (optional)Theo Jansen and Izzy Swan's Walking Machines:
Enter a caption (optional)Thorsten Krijn's Quadro Single-Passenger Autonomous 20-Rotor Drone:
Enter a caption (optional)The Swarm 54-Rotor Personal Flying Craft:
Enter a caption (optional)A Combination Treadmill-Bicycle:
Enter a caption (optional)No Snowmobile? No Problem: Get a Boat, a Motor and a Buzzsaw Blade:
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Enter a caption (optional)A Combination Skateboard and Golf Cart:
Enter a caption (optional)Alexandru Duru's Real, Working Hoverboard:
Enter a caption (optional)Modular Cargo Bikes with Unusual Steering Mechanisms:
Enter a caption (optional)We thought about ranking these in order of dangerousness, but it's too tough to decide whether Brian-Boitano-meets-Leatherface or the guys in the flying drones are more likely to meet a grisly end. Well, you know what they say, progress can be messy.
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