Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A Carbon-Free, Stackable Rental Car
This illustration shows how City Cars stack together.
Credit: Franco Vairani
Credit: Franco Vairani
The wheels also enable incredible maneuverability. Instead of making U-turns, the car can spin on the spot, and when the driver turns each wheel 90 degrees, the car can parallel-park by moving sideways.
"The idea for a wheel motor has been around for a long time," says Peter Schmitt, designer of the wheel. But Schmitt says that the advantage of his design is that the wheel is controlled by software instead of by mechanical coupling.
The MIT team's vision of deploying these cars in a shared-use, personal-mobility system isn't new either. In Lyon, France, a company called Velo'v recently introduced a shared-use bicycle system throughout the city. Based on its initial success, the Velo'v system is being extended to Paris with approximately 2,000 stacks and 20,000 bicycles.
Honda City 2009 with good safety
Honda has finally and officially started selling the all new third generation Honda City. We might not get the ultra-compact in North America but the car, which plays little brother to the Honda Civic, has been widely anticipared in Asian countries like Malaysia, India and Pakistan where the City is considered a efficient and quality means of transportation.
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