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Does it come with a propeller and rudder? What's the point of floating if you have no control over where you end up?
by bink 3y ago
Does it come with a propeller and rudder? What's the point of floating if you have no control over where you end up?
- roughly 3y agoIt’s often better than sinking. They do say it can propel itself at 3km/hr and also turn in the water by spinning the wheels.
- lambdasquirrel 3y ago3km / hr does not get you very far if you’re paddling against a current. I hope that no one abuses the feature or use it to do the dumb things people often do when they see a flooded road.
- yial 3y agoIt sounds like it uses the wheels and tires to provide slight control and speed.
- raisedbyninjas 3y agoSo if there is any wind at all, your luxury SUV is just going to get blown around wherever the wind blows. I've personally never been to a lake with no wind. Maybe it's useful foolishly ford a washed washed out road and get swept down-river.
- lambdasquirrel 3y agoI wouldn’t say it’s that bad. 3km/hr is roughly the speed of a rec kayak, and people paddle those. But of course, it might create a false sense of security because weather that’d cause flooding…
- yial 3y agoI don’t disagree with you. Where I grew up there was a steel grated metal bridge. It would flood. Constantly someone in a truck would try to drive over, get swept against the guard rail, and have to be rescued by the local fire department. Eventually they just started sitting there in a truck whenever it flooded to prevent people from trying it. (It was a rural area… drive around those bridge closed signs ).
- AnarchismIsCool 3y agoIt has four wheel motors so theoretically it can steer to some degree in still water. Turing the wheels creates some force from water resistance.