This Vehicle Takes Skiers to the Top of the Mountain and Drives Itself Back Down
If skiing had golf carts this is what they would be
June 20, 2021
Somehow a bear’s gonna end up riding one of these things
One of the interesting things about living in the future is the constant application of new technologies to ever-more novel purposes. Like when I was trying to sleep in on the weekends and my mom decided that that was an excellent hour to vacuum the hallway outside my bedroom door for 45 minutes, I never imagined we’d one day have little robot vacuums questing across our homes like dust-bunny Zeldas in search of the garbage Triforce. But thanks to geniuses who re-applied technology once used to map the surface of the moon, a Roomba can now learn and roam your house on its own.
The geniuses are at work in the ski world as well, inventing large expensive things that we were unaware we needed but will unquestionably purchase in large enough quantities to eventually kill their novelty. One of these geniuses is Dr. Seth Neubardt, a New York-based orthopedic spine surgeon out of whose brain spun a self-driving contraption called the dolaGon, a kind of personal mini-snowcat that drops skiers at the top of the mountain and drives itself back down. Observe:
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Posted from The Storm Skiing Journal & Podcast
