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This looks like a useful thing for special purpose areas, like like the kinds of areas like areas with a set of exhibition halls and similar. But thinking it m
by dathinab 5y ago
This looks like a useful thing for special purpose areas,
like like the kinds of areas like areas with a set of
exhibition halls and similar.
But thinking it makes sense "on a normal street" sound to me
like a solution from an American world view bubble.
Like e.g. the ground clearing of this thing is a catastrophe
and speed bumps are a standard solutions for reducing people
going gross over speed limits in many parts of the worlds (or
the streets are less maintained, or the streets go steep up
and down in the mountains).
Similar for many parts of the world the _proven_ solution of
cars is to have much less of them (and in some cases avoid
unnecessary large cars). Which works out quite well in
many cases. And has many benefits, like less resource wasted,
less noise pollution, less air pollution, better local economics,
etc. Many of this factors still apply to electric cars in some
way or another.
The only areas where such a concept makes sense is if you:
- have supper well maintained roads
- either have a super high population density (e.g. Tokyo, or
Singapore) but then you probably don't have size for that
fancy setup you can put onto it
- or are supper dependent on cars to a point where it feels impossible
to not rely on cars (many parts of the US)
- stubish 5y agoWhat I find weird is they are showing this as a concept car. The idea seems better suited for autonomous trolleys or personal mobility in places like shopping centers or airports.
- dathinab 5y agoI think it might be some kind of "car designer trend". I have seen such concept cars already from all kind of companies years ago. And common factors are: - Ball wheels - Whole car in the "bottom plate", top in some way customizable/replaceable. - Self driving or joystick controller