It didn't have any wheels and sat on its belly like a cat crouching to catch a bird.
The Irish government isn't above greasing the wheels a bit either.
We can't afford to spin our wheels while the rest of the world speeds ahead.
Because cars with rear-wheel drive not only don't torque steer (front wheels, upon hard acceleration, fighting the driver's navigating intentions), but have a more natural feeling both entering and leaving a turn.
Brinksmanship doesn't work if the people at the wheels go hurtling over the brink.
The submissions could be all about bicycles, from any creative perspective, he reasoned, with the aim to make the world a safer place for those who can't get enough of life on two wheels.
The PMP-2 loses all that unnecessary bodywork and stuff in favour of a minimal platform-with-wheels design that doesn't inspire much confidence to look at, though it apparently balances alright with a bit of practice (see video).
Once you learn, the training wheels come off and you can't imagine not doing it.
Then, four days later, flying touch-and-go landings in a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star with Chuck Yeager, the wheels became stuck in a lake bed made wet by recent rain where they had to await rescue.
We'd imagine with some practice our finesse would improved, but we can't say that it doesn't feel any more realistic than the wireless Xbox or Wii wheels.
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The six-wheeled bots are being designed to carry a significant scientific payload, oriented around the search for life, but won't slouch in the maneuverability department, with six independently rotating wheels.
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But an angry, spiteful Roosevelt decided to create a committee of wise public servants who would regulate the system and provide capital as needed. (He wouldn't be the last to do so.) He set the wheels in motion and, five years later, the Fed was born.
All this from a company founded a century ago that's making a product that hasn't fundamentally changed since then: an internal combustion engine bolted between two rubber wheels.
"People say back home all the time whether it's Michigan, Kansas, any state, 'Why can't you folks get along back there and do something instead of spinning your wheels and pointing fingers, '" Roberts said.
That or set up a dummy corporation with the word "monster" in the name, since you're basically guaranteed they'll spin their wheels serving a summons for merely existing. (Don't worry, you'll have limited personal liability.) You pick, whatever's easier.
It wasn't until he recorded a version of "Love Me Tender" with a Chinese jazz vocalist that the wheels in his head started to turn.
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