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To: michael97123 who wrote (56895)	12/4/2001 11:46:35 AM
From: trilobyte	Respond to of 70976

absolutely right! It will use it's laser-aided artificial vision capabilities to acquire impending impact data and process it with it's intuitive computer software technology. Upon determination of danger to the skooter, vertical thrusters will propel the skooter off the ground and out of arms way. A cluster of tilt sensors and aviation-grade gyroscopes will ensure stability during the emergency procedure. In the event there is insufficient time to perform the vertical avoidance manoeuvre with the rapidly incoming vehicle, the skooter will eject itself from under the passenger to avoid serious damage to it's mechanisms and perform a rapid sequence of lateral movements, akin to a primordial dance, leaving the "pilot" as a decoy to take the full brunt of the impact. For this reason, brakes were purposely left off the vehicle to impede any attempt by the pilot to apply unacceptable friction during the evasive motions. In preliminary testing, no skooter was lost, but severe mutilating injuries to the only test pilot that accepted the assignment were reported.