CityCar Folding Electric Vehicle - Check THIS out!

[AZhitman]

Super-cool idea for urban commuters - I love the new technology... Get ready for the future!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKWl34N3O0[/youtube]

[themadscientist]

That thing is cool as hell. I'd daily that.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

The way they did their steering with a chain of gear sets was pretty cool.

Too bad BMW came up with that (more than) basic vehicle concept back in the 50s.

[Dattebayo]

Here you get a ticket for parking two motor cycles in one car spot, I can only imagine it's the same for three foldable electric cars...

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Here you get a ticket for parking two motor cycles in one car spot

Really?! What kind of ***hole writes a ticket for that... its like the bikers are doing everyone ELSE a favor!

[Dattebayo]

It's the same ***hole who writes the middle car a ticket when three small cars park in spots designated for two cars only. It's a meter violation.

As for the motor cycles thing, you'd figure 4 wheels would be four wheels, but they don't think like that when it comes to the city's money. It's not like they really need a reason to ticket you anyway.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Yeah... the meter is renting that parking space. I should be able to use it as a storage facility as long as I keep the meter fed.

This is why I don't like cities.

[hannibal]

Thats pretty clever!

As for bikes sharing spaces, seems like a good thing to me...

[szh]

Super-cool idea for urban commuters - I love the new technology... Get ready for the future!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKWl34N3O0[/youtube]

It is pretty cool indeed!

But it seemed to remind me of something I had heard about some time back, so I went looking. And I found the info: http://cp.media.mit.edu/research/54-citycar! The CityCar project was the brainchild of the Director of Smart Cities Project at the MIT Media Lab, William Mitchell.

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[MinisterofDOOM]

This is another thing that frustrates me with the modern auto industry: Until just this past year, there WERE NO MORE SUBCOMPACT CARS. Unless you wanted a Smart ForTwo, which is a terrible car that fails spectacularly at everything a city-friendly small car should do.

Now, we've got the Toyota iQ (probably the best attempt at a genuinely compact car since the Metro). You've got the Mazda 2 and Ford Fiesta. You've got Chevy's progressively-tiner Sonic and Spark.

I find it bizarre that despite everyone bitching constantly about MPG and fuel prices for the last five years, it took until just recently for the subcompact to make a comeback. I personally would never buy one, but when your only choices for a 40mpg commuter are a Yaris and a Versa, the world is in a sad, sad place.

Let's see some of these city car concepts start GETTING MADE for crying out loud. What's the hold-up? The market is ripe for them. But instead of building these things, automakers are busy shoving the tiniest motors and crummiest transmissions they can find into normal cars and trucks in the name of maximize fuel efficiency.

[elwesso]

That is a nice selling feature of being able to get out at the curb rather than on the street side...

It's definitely a cool idea.

[fiznowler]

I want one!