I'm not convinced of the utility of this wheel design.
Different wheel widths and diameters are certainly suited for different tasks, but in an area with no roads why not produce a simple wheel with large diameter and width suited for poor roads? There seems to be little value in allowing it to convert to a wheel design suited for better terrain.
Further, optimal wheel design matters most when you're propelling or steering the vehicle, as in a bicycle or motorized car / cart. In this case I suspect you'd be better off with the advantages of a pneumatic tire than the adaptability of this "Roadless" design. None of the Roadless concepts incorporate a pressurized air tire, arguably one of the most important transportation innovations in history.
And in any case, the added complexity seems unwelcome in this sort of environment.
Pivotal Labs is dying for a decent junior support engineer / helpdesk person here in San Francisco. Someone to keep things running smoothly, from troubleshooting OS X to just keeping the cables in the conference rooms connected up right. If you have to stop yourself from fixing computers when you're wandering around in public you're our kind of person. If you enjoy people too and love making tech work for humans, I want to talk to you.
This was originally my job. I hired someone to take over for me and got promoted. That guy just got promoted. Now we need someone new. This is the kind of place where you pick a thing and become the dude for that. We're growing about 40% per year, lotsa room to move around.
Just out of college? Dropped out of college? That's cool. If you can make computers work for people, that's what counts.
Because that would encourage people to find the a free, higher quality version of the film outside the Netflix service, which would obviously not be good for them. It would be almost like running an ad for a competitor before playing.
Different wheel widths and diameters are certainly suited for different tasks, but in an area with no roads why not produce a simple wheel with large diameter and width suited for poor roads? There seems to be little value in allowing it to convert to a wheel design suited for better terrain.
Further, optimal wheel design matters most when you're propelling or steering the vehicle, as in a bicycle or motorized car / cart. In this case I suspect you'd be better off with the advantages of a pneumatic tire than the adaptability of this "Roadless" design. None of the Roadless concepts incorporate a pressurized air tire, arguably one of the most important transportation innovations in history.
And in any case, the added complexity seems unwelcome in this sort of environment.
Am I missing something?