The City Car Project
A group of researchers and engineers from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is developing an innovative vehicle designed for its use around cities or small communities. The “City Car”, with room for two passengers, would be powered by lithium-ion batteries and could collapse, then stack like a shopping cart with up to eight cars fitting into a usual parking space.
The City Car is designed more as a service than as an individual vehicle. It could be connected to a network giving the driver access to real-time information, such as route advice in bad weather or traffic congestion conditions. Or it could even alert drivers when they approach the kind of restaurant they like.
The City Car would work similar to a shopping cart or a bike-share program where you return the item to a convenient location when you’re done with it. City Car users would be required to swipe their credit card as a form of deposit. The cars could also be tracked using GPS. To protect privacy, the GPS info could then be deleted once the car is safely returned.
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DrK said
am November 11 2007 @ 12:27 am
This is a novel idea. A folding car no less. It will be interesting to see if it ever becomes a reality.
Drk
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Mats Borgkvist said
am November 11 2007 @ 2:56 am
Mamma Mia!
I don´t want to crach with such a car!
Who wants to get into a windscreen with his head first? It certainly could causes you a instant death when you crach.
Why don´t you turn this vehicle round, so you will drive in the opposite direction instead?
In this direction the weels will go under your seat and you will go up over the crach instead of being forcemeat into it. In this way you will be over the crach and saved.
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Then you will sit like this: !
O—!
A very good way of getting a small car much safer I think.
Mats Borgkvist, Malmö, Sweden.
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am January 4 2008 @ 5:37 am
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Kelly, said
am March 31 2008 @ 10:40 am
This was a fantastically written post and the pics complement the tale wonderfully! I’ll send it to my friend.
Juliana said
am April 4 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Estive no Museu do MIT e pude ver de perto a tecnologia aplicada a esse veículo. Rodas independentes, sistema de amortecimento robusto, e um razoável conforto dentro do carro.
Gostaria de saber quem está patrocinando este projeto. A GM?
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