Little vehicles are a great concept for cities and perhaps will (and should) take over the city. What this article fails to mention are the risks involved. As

Little vehicles are a great concept for cities and perhaps will (and should) take over the city. What this article fails to mention are the risks involved. As a New Yorker, I absolutely cringe when I see a family of tourists riding down a busy street on their bikes, oblivious to the world. It is extremely dangerous to ride a bike on the side of a busy road. Many streets are entirely without bikelanes and taxis , buses and trucks are constantly barreling around corners and driving in out out of the shoulder. Little vehicles will be great in a city with roads and pathways designed for them, but they remain a very risky proposition as long as the roads are designed for (and crowded with) much larger vehicles.