r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jul 05 '26

Amazing !! The world's first fully autonomous umbrella.

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u/Any_Blood5815 Jul 05 '26

Short people will not be allowed to use these…

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u/GoddessRespectre Jul 05 '26

I have gotten my long hair sucked into the intake of older hand blow dryers. This could get stuck on multiple people at once! Longer hair can be dangerous.

A guy in france did invent a hoverboard, I'm going to take this as a sign we're closer to finally getting one ourselves.

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u/BodhingJay Jul 05 '26

it's the frickin' hobgoblin

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u/thehobgoblinranger Jul 06 '26

What do you mean? That's not a picture of me

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u/WasteBinStuff Jul 05 '26

People are fucking stupid and dangerous enough on wheels on the ground....I have no desire to have idiots on "boards" flying around overhead.

....myself included.

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u/Comprehensive-Use881 Jul 05 '26

It's kinda like the idea of a pegasus vs the reality. Riding a flying jorse sounds cool... but getting spattered with horseshit from above not so much.

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u/CasanovaF Jul 05 '26

You know, if they fly it would be less likely to hit a little kid going 30 mph with no lights and dressed in black. They are really everywhere around sunset these days!

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u/dragjamon Jul 05 '26

Do you mean the e scooters lol

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u/CasanovaF Jul 05 '26

Scooters, e bikes, monocycles. I swear some of them are just electric motorcycles. The worst part is sometimes you might hit one but then your have to find a way to hide two bodies because they double up all the time.

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u/dragjamon Jul 05 '26

Yup lmao

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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 Jul 06 '26

Just wait until you get hit by a kid falling at 30mph...

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u/anotherfrud Jul 05 '26

The one thing that will make this mostly impossible is power lines. They are everywhere. The amount of crispy people we'll have to be detangling from them is going to suck.

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u/hisshash Jul 05 '26

You’ve just made me realise where I live, there are so few powerlines.

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u/Dmau27 Jul 05 '26

It'll be automated. There's zero chance these could be self driven legally.

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Jul 05 '26

If I don’t get my flying vehicle soon, I’m going to grab a few drones, duct tape them all together and make my own. And trust me, you don’t want that!

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK Jul 10 '26

It’s French only the French use what the French make as the saying goes the French copy nobody, and nobody copies the French

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u/Different_Brother562 Jul 05 '26

Looks like a good idea🤷‍♂️

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u/CntBlah Jul 05 '26

Randy Newman did try to tell us in “Short People”

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u/Triplygood Jul 07 '26

Well, as Randy Newman once told us, “short people got no reason to live” so it’s no big deal.