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Comment Re:Why not a crawler? (Score 1) 64

Aside from stability issues others have mentioned, a snake large enough to house all the stuff in the rover would be very well, large I think.
link chosen from google image search becasue you can get an idea of scale from the people standing beside the rover. http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-20013071-239.html
Combining and recombining like a Japanese cartoon robot works best in cartoons. Sand and other realities would make it difficult to execute well on Mars

Comment Re:Same As the NTSB (Score 1) 257

I'm used to cycling in city traffic (Dublin, Ireland) and sensors and empty junctions don't factor there. Some of the quieter areas might have them but I honestly don' t know. All I know for sure is that outside of the city there are plenty of junctions which don't have sensors. Oh and I don't push any buttons when I'm on the bike, I just run them once it's "clear" :D

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