Future of transport?
What’s the future of transport? Is it, in the city environment of personal transportation, this little number by Honda?
The 3R-C seats one driver in a near-vertical position, with the clear canopy covering the cockpit when the vehicle is parked but turning into a protective windshield when the vehicle is moving. Honda says the vehicle includes a flexible cover that protects the occupant from poor weather and improves comfort.
Directional movements are controlled by a motorbike-style handlebar rather than a steering wheel, and momentum is generated by an electric motor that Honda says has been mounted low for greater stability. The 3R-C, which was designed at Honda’s Research and Design facility in Italy, features a lockable luggage compartment ahead of the driver.
Hmmm. Is electricity the future? Ethanol? Nuclear? Something we haven’t thought of yet?
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Completely off topic, I know, but did you go to the Brighton Tea Party? (Just so curious how it went.)
Well it’s certainly leagues ahead of the C5 or that stupid Segway (or however you spell it)
The plethora of sleeping policemen and other ‘traffic calming’ obstacles would wreck it.
and, would it be taxed as a car or a bike?
It’ll never replace the pogo stick. Anyway, the future of commuting is to freeze the rivers and let us all skate to work.
At first sight I thought it looked like a mini-Dyson vacuum cleaner.
On second and third sight it still does!
A Sinclair C5 in permanent reverse, Jams?
How aliens must laugh at our failure to make everything come to us.
Too true.
I like it, whilst as a three wheeler you shouldn’t have to wear a crash helmet, I bet once the DoHS and the rest get their way you’ll have to.
Much like when I was looking to get a BMW C1 which was speciffically designed to not have to wear a helmet. But not in this country where they made it illegal and sales tanked.
O/T, Sorry. For you, James.
Lord Monckton on King World News….A must listen.
Not very companionable is it?
That is wild!
What a ridiculous contraption.
1. It is made for small people, not everyone is small boned.
2. How do you carry anything in it? I’d have a hell of a time grocery shopping with it.
3. I’d like to see the inventors maneuver that toy on our streets during winter with below freezing weather, and a road with a foot of snow on top of a coating of ice.
Transport, not ‘transportation’.
As someone who has been through what was once called ‘art school’, when an art school training actually equipped people with some sellable skills, I’d advise against seeing post-graduate visions of the future as anything other than uninformed re-interpretations of the past in a pretty box.
I remember when those who now style themselves ‘graphic designers’ were content to be thought of as jobbing printers, and knew far more.
Anything’s better than public transport…
Interesting stuff. And Harry – walking?