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Steven Lyle Jordan · 10-17-2008, 10:22 AM

Konichi-wa. I'm Steve Jordan, author and futurist, and I'd like to share something with you. Recently, thanks to certain temporal regulations which I was given the opportunity to--let's say "bend slightly"--I was able to obtain a VentureOne, an incredible three-wheeled vehicle designed to be an energy-efficient transportation-slash-commuting vehicle. It comes in hybrid or all-electric flavors, and due to the year in which this one was made... 2018... I have the electric, which will reach speeds of 120MPH and travel 200 miles on a single 2-hour charge!

Most amazingly, this vehicle actually tilts the body into your turns, much like a motorcycle does. It gives you a feeling of flying "on-the-deck," an exhilarating experience if you've ever had one. It is built out of carbon fiber, from the new process that extracts excess carbon from the atmosphere and binds it into a fullerene-bonded carbon fiber weave... meaning this vehicle literally "cleans the air" in multiple ways!

And it comes with the latest technology: Full and partial autopilot with collision-avoidance intelligence; voice-controlled GPS with traffic-avoidance alternate-route capability; customizable heads-up display; radar, lidar, sonar and gravar detection systems; in-dash HD satellite hookup; built-in full-color e-book display rollout; drink dispenser; seat massager; stowable tray-table; deployable razor-spike street-jacks (to deal with tailgators, of course); bulletproof canopy with solar cell coating; aerial homing robot; smart-missile countermeasures; synthetic voice warning systems that can be pre-programmed to use the voices of the actor or actress of your choice (Mine is programmed with Penelope Cruz... I'm such a sucker for latin accents); and cupholders. My one complaint: The cupholders are too small to hold a Big Gulp cup. So I bought the adapter... $15.95 at Pep Boys. (The adapter from VentureOne is such a rip-off...)

So, it's time to give this baby a test-drive. I asked my wife to come along for the ride (it is a two-seater), but she declined, saying she'd rather wait until she's had a chance to review the temporal regulations contract I signed when I bought the ride. So, without further ado... let's get started!

10-17-2008, 10:22 AM	#1
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Steve Jordan test-drives the VentureOne Konichi-wa. I'm Steve Jordan, author and futurist, and I'd like to share something with you. Recently, thanks to certain temporal regulations which I was given the opportunity to--let's say "bend slightly"--I was able to obtain a VentureOne, an incredible three-wheeled vehicle designed to be an energy-efficient transportation-slash-commuting vehicle. It comes in hybrid or all-electric flavors, and due to the year in which this one was made... 2018... I have the electric, which will reach speeds of 120MPH and travel 200 miles on a single 2-hour charge! Most amazingly, this vehicle actually tilts the body into your turns, much like a motorcycle does. It gives you a feeling of flying "on-the-deck," an exhilarating experience if you've ever had one. It is built out of carbon fiber, from the new process that extracts excess carbon from the atmosphere and binds it into a fullerene-bonded carbon fiber weave... meaning this vehicle literally "cleans the air" in multiple ways! And it comes with the latest technology: Full and partial autopilot with collision-avoidance intelligence; voice-controlled GPS with traffic-avoidance alternate-route capability; customizable heads-up display; radar, lidar, sonar and gravar detection systems; in-dash HD satellite hookup; built-in full-color e-book display rollout; drink dispenser; seat massager; stowable tray-table; deployable razor-spike street-jacks (to deal with tailgators, of course); bulletproof canopy with solar cell coating; aerial homing robot; smart-missile countermeasures; synthetic voice warning systems that can be pre-programmed to use the voices of the actor or actress of your choice (Mine is programmed with Penelope Cruz... I'm such a sucker for latin accents); and cupholders. My one complaint: The cupholders are too small to hold a Big Gulp cup. So I bought the adapter... $15.95 at Pep Boys. (The adapter from VentureOne is such a rip-off...) So, it's time to give this baby a test-drive. I asked my wife to come along for the ride (it is a two-seater), but she declined, saying she'd rather wait until she's had a chance to review the temporal regulations contract I signed when I bought the ride. So, without further ado... let's get started! Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 10-17-2008 at 02:01 PM.