Volkswagen Builds Star Trek Captain's Chair That Goes 12 MPH - Slashdot
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Volkswagen Builds Star Trek Captain's Chair That Goes 12 MPH
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No those are stylized Fs. It stands for "Folks Wagon" or "people's car". They made it just for their fuhrer's people.
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like just stop.
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Don't worry. If this chair can't go forward, it can reverse.
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Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse
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If you watch the actual YouTube link from Volkswagon Norway, it doesn't mention Star Trek at all. That video talks about how they wanted to make an office chair with the amenities of a Volkswagen car - headlights, trailer hitch, stereo system, etc. It looks like it was a fun project.
Any "Star Trek" references come only from the Verge blogger's mind. Watch the first five seconds of the video - the chair is just an office chair, it doesn't remotely look like anything from Star Trek... unless there was a Star Trek episode which included a standard 21st century office chair.
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If they stopped wasting ressources on marketing, and started to engineer the next gen EVs instead ?
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Yep, it's just a motorized office chair.
No mention of "Star Trek" or anything remotely related. Only the idiot blogger added that.
(presumably as click-bait, and it worked..)
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Well, IIRC "captain's chair" is standard nomenclature for a kind of office chair with attached arms. They used to be rare enough that the name was more common, but these days most office-style chairs have arms, so it's fallen out of use. (Or perhaps it had a more specialized meaning that I just never grokked.)
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And the only Star Trek captain with a motorized chair was Pike, but it'd need "yes" and "no" lights on it.
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Regardless, this is the only way you are getting me back in the office.
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... at 12 miles per hour!
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The article ends with this gem:
So, looks cool, but it's not going into production.
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It's the new Slashdot meta. Complain about every product as a "slashvertisement" while also complaining about anything you can't buy and isn't in production.
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Bit of a low bar for a high point.
You (well, that idiot blogger) mean "dieselgate"? That was them and everybody else in the industry. Meaning that the bureaucrats making the regulations had pushed beyond the realistic.
This doesn't mean I approve of the lying. The fact "everybody was doing the exact same thing" means it makes no sense to keep on harping on that one party's doing that. The cause lies elsewhere, so just going "don't lie, eh!?!" isn't going to make things better. Pointing at just VW isn't even
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No, the article is right there, you should have clicked on it.
It really wasn't.
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So what other automaker had hundreds of thousands of used cars they had to buy back sitting in a parking lot collecting dust?
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Absolute bullshit. Every single automaker was completely capable of meeting the emissions standards. Some of them needed to use more equipment (i.e. DEF) and others only needed to not tune the vehicle to be quite as much fun to drive. Mazda skipped having a diesel at that time specifically because they couldn't figure out how to make it engaging and meet the emissions restrictions, but ze germans decided those restrictions weren't as important as sales.
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They had gasser models of the same cars for sale too. Also, if none of them had cheated, their diesels would have been competing with other diesels (people who want diesels are usually not cross-shopping with gassers) and they would have been equally salable.
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It's almost as if the idiot blogger couldn't read the bit that says: "Unfortunately, the chair is only available as an exhibition model, because we always put customers who actually need vans in the driver's seat. But it will be available for test drives at various locations. Keep an eye out for where it is in our social media channels."
Apparently you can't either.
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by Don'tJoin ( 6185656 ) on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:00AM (#63045147)
The movie Wall-E's starship inhabitants.
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I can't help but wonder how those cars are street legal, since he's driving them on the street and they clearly don't have airbags.
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Maybe they count as a quad bike or something similar?
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you really need one, because you can no longer control your legs.
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Then, no thanks. Not for me. Call me when it can haul not just the chair, but also tow the desk, and the filing cabinet. And it has to go from gate office to out building 5 in one charge. And it should recharge in one minute. And it should not cost a dime more than my 20 year old desk chair.
Even if it can do all that it will trip our 1,000,000 Amp service line circuit breaker. There is simply no way the wiring can handle it.
It will never be anything more than a fashion accessory to the virtue signallin
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Does it come with a seat belt?
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Yes, in fact. Unlike the stupid headline, the goal was actually to replicate all the features of a car, not build a movie prop. So naturally, it has a seatbelt.
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VW Exec: "How do we win back customer hearts and minds after trashing our rep with emissions testing corporate evilness?"
VW Marketing Dept: "Let's remind them we're fun and cute. Gotta make it look grassroots for authenticity. We should probably wait at least a few years for things to blow over, or it'll look suspicious."
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If it ever came to market, they wouldn't charge more than $30k for a chair.
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But the most important question...
does it have Eject Pod button? -
I think the subject says it all
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I assume they meant Pike. Does it come with a flashing light and a beeper, once for yes and twice for no?
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..for VW utility vehicles. Seriously, that’s all it is. There is no chair, Star Trek or otherwise.
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by PPH ( 736903 ) on Saturday November 12, 2022 @11:10AM (#63045605)
... are people getting?
I can see having some fun with these in the office. Some lazy slob goes cruising down the aisle at 20 kph. I step out of my cubicle at the last instant. Chair anti-collision kicks in and locks up the brakes. Dumping fatso on his face.
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When it goes into commercial production they should call it, "The Hawking Drive",:)
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This is just the latest attempt from management to enforce the outdated "butt-in-seats" methodology of managing workforces.
As soon as they equip the chair with a toilet seat, workers will literally never have to leave their seats.
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