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Aurjay:
Why don't we have hovercrafts its like England is light years ahead of us in this. I mean hell they even have Hover Lawnmowers

KharBevNor:
Well, we did invent Hovercraft over here, so there's that!

Hovercraft have been tried out in various places and various configurations. There used to be a cross-channel service that took cars before the chunnel opened. Unfortunately hovercraft have two significant problems

1)As mentioned above, their all but useless for passenger transport in anything but the calmest seas. I don't think they actually work full-stop in very rough seas. Even when it's like a millpond the ride quality is terrible. Whereas well-designed hulled vessels slice straight through small waves smoothly, hovercraft deliver every imperfection in the waters surface straight to your pelvis like a pneumatic jackhammer. Going over the wakes of large ships is like taking a speed-bump in a car at 60 mph.

2) They're insanely loud. this video gives some impression. Note how when the hovercraft turns its rotors towards the camera it completely blows out the microphone. They sound like jet aircraft taking off, all the time.

They are fucking nippy though. They go at about 40-50 mph, which seems more like 100 on the water.

scarred:
i don't have a license because i could never afford driver's ed

now i can just take the test, but that way i won't get insurance

anyway it doesn't matter, i bike everywhere



/woo

tania:
i got an ontario driver's license but because i moved before i could qualify for the full license, i've only got about two years left before it expires. even though i don't own a car and have no plans to in the near future, i'm trying to work out how to get a british columbia driver's license at some point just because it seems like a really useful thing to have... except i think i may have forgotten how to drive. and i don't think any of my friends will let me practice on their cars because i am a terrible driver. this might be complicated.

oh well! public transit rules anyway.

ibrahimdelil:
here we go lol

my first car was almost exactly like this one, a 1988 ford taunus, which i had back when i was 16 or 17 i guess (had no license obv). got it for like 500$, then sold for about 1000$ :mrgreen: it was big and heavy, had no power steering, wobbly ride, and i loved it.


then i got a fabia sw as a company car for about 6 months. shit mileage, shit auto gearbox. it felt like walking would be faster.


after that one was a hyundai getz which was o.k. as a company car. drove it for about a year, broke a lot.


around that time i bought my own car, a 2001 5.20i. i still miss that car, it was wonderful. got lpg fitted so had same mpg as the hyundai lol.


after the bimmer i got a 2005 audi a3, sold it right away as i found out i HATE coupes.


i had no car for about a year, then bought a 2008 golf. it was the tsi model with 140bhp, was so awesome. sold to a coworker same year.


and my current car, 2006 3.20d, it feels like i've been paying for it for centuries. yet its a beautiful car with great mpg and performance so i'm not complaining.

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