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Ever get any comments from your passengers about your driving partner on the dashboard? I hope that vending machine in the bus does not contain cigarettes. What city are you in? Is that old green bus still in service, or is that a museum piece? A friend of mine worked for the transit system in Browa...

The magnetic poles don't switch around all at once. Gradually the magnetic field will become weaker, and less defined, and there may be several north and south poles at once. Then the field will become stronger as a new south pole appears where the north pole was and visa versa. This switching of th...

Neat. Are you a bus driver?

There are two different videos on the site (two of the three links are the same though).
The island looks like Astro's head!

Gyro compasses still have to be aligned against magnetic once in a while (offset by the isogonic correction, same as in aircraft). It's worse for subs as they can't rely on GPS as aircraft can (except on the surface).

Looks like a cross between a 'Borg' and Dr. Black Jack, with a Demon and a 'Terminator' thrown in for good measure.

I'll have to look out for that. It would be the first BD disk I would have purchased.

Robi may be the basis for Atom, IE: use of servo motors, speech synth, etc. Atom adds a camera and display screen which Robi does not have. I have no idea about the software.

A story on this was posted before, but I don't think I've ever seen video on it. Here is a link to that: https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE-%E5%AE%8C%E6%88%90%E7%89%88ATOM-%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9C%E3%83%83%E...