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Seorang individu telah merekodkan pembelian nombor plat paling mahal didunia apabila membeli nombor plat P7 dengan harga AED55 juta (RM66.16 juta).

Memetik laporan Piston.my, pembeli tersebut (identiti tidak didedahkan) membuat pembelian nombor plat tersebut di Emirates Auction LLC pada Sabtu. Difahamkan, wang pembelian nombor plat tersebut akan disalurkan kepada badan kebajikan milik Pemerintah Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid. 

Untuk rekod, pembelian terbaru ini memecahkan rekod yang dilakar pada 2008 selepas usahawan Dubai, Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri membelanjakan AED52.2juta (RM62.8 juta) bagi membeli nombor plat Abu Dhabi dengan angka 1. 

Difahamkan, membeli nombor pendaftaraan kenderaan pada harga tinggi sudah menjadi kebiasaan di Dubai. 

  • The Dubai Police Force hover bike is undergoing trails.

  • But this one hit trouble and crashed.

  • Thankfully the pilot got away unhurt.

The Dubai made headlines when they announced the purchase a batch of hover bikes. But what many feared had come through in this crash video of the Dubai Police Force Hover bike.

The video shows personnel carrying out field tests of the Hoversurf contraption, which resembles a large man-carrying drone.

He first took off straight up, before punching the machine forward aggressively as if to simulate a pursuit. He let go of his right hand for some reason, looking more like a rodeo rider as the hover bike struggled to stabilize. According to other media sources, he was trying to signal that he was in trouble to the ground crew.


The bike then started losing altitude at a hurry and smashed tail-first onto the ground. The rider rolled away quickly from the machine, thankfully.

One other fear, besides falling from great heights, are the open rotors that spin at thousands of RPM. But they seemed to have broken in the crash. They are made of carbon fibre, by the way, and those things are stiff, unless the Hoversurf is equipped with a system to stop or release them during impact.

The Dubai Police Force purchased the Hoversuf at US$ 150,000 a pop for the intention of patrolling the city. A charge could last for 25 minutes at 70 km/h. The machine could be piloted by a human or via remote control.

Video from Videokings YouTube Channel

Di negara lain, amat sukar untuk melihat kelibat sebuah ‘supercar’ tetapi di Dubai, ‘supercar’ digunakan sebagai kereta harian terutamanya bagi pihak berkuasa tempatan yang sememangnya menggunakan kereta berkuasa tinggi sebagai jentera peronda.

Bagaimanapun, kali ini servis ambulans Dubai turut dinaik taraf kepada penggunaan kereta ‘supercar’.

Dubai Corporation For Ambulance Services mengumumkan – menerusi laman Facebook – bahawa mereka telah mendapatkan dua jentera sebagai kenderaan kecemasan, sebuah Chevrolet Corvette dan Nissan GT-R.

Menurut laporan GTSpirit, kedua-dua jentera ini bukanlah bertindak sebagai ambulans tradisional yang akan membawa pesakit ke hospital, sebaliknya akan bertindak sebagai kenderaan respon pertama yang akan sampai ke tempat pesakit empat ke lapan minit lebih awal untuk menghulurkan bantuan sebelum ketibaan ambulans.

Sementara itu, kehadiran dua ambulans ‘supercar’ ini akan turut kelihatan di tempat tumpuan pelancong dan beberapa acara sukan terpilih.

Sebelum ini, Dubai Corporation Ambulance Service turut mengguna pakai Nissan 370Z dan Ford Mustang.

(SUMBER: Motor1.com)

 

  • Telah tersebar desas-desus yang mengatakan bahawa Jabatan Polis Dubai bakal menggunakan bantuan hoverbike sebagai sebahagian daripada kelengkapan pasukan petugasnya dalam masa yang terdekat.
  • Menurut sebuah syarikat dari Russia, Hoversurf International, hoverbike buatan istimewa mereka telah lulus ujian ekstrim bahang haba dan debu.
  • Jentera satu pelana janaan elektrik itu menggunakan empat kipas helikopter mini yang mampu menanggung beban sekitar 300kg sewaktu bergerak pada kelajuan 40km/j selama 25 minit pada satu-satu masa.

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Some say that the Dubai Police will soon employ the assistance of hoverbikes as part of their task force in the near future.

According to Russian company Hoversurf International, their specially-made hoverbike has passed extreme tests when it comes to heat and dust.

The electric-powered single-seat machine uses four mini helicopter propellers that is able to carry around 300kg while going at 40km/h for over 25 minutes at a time.

The future is now, ladies and gentlemen. According to the folks over at Hoversurf International, they will soon provide a few of their groundbreaking hoverbikes to the Dubai Police task force. This particular model will be based on their very successful Scorpion (S-3) concept. (more…)

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