Stackable City Cars Save Space

[dgridley]

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working for several years with the famous architect Frank Gehry on a concept of smart cars which will be built by General Motors. And these future robotic cars will be pollution-free and easily customized according to the Guardian. But the most interesting aspect of the project is that engineers have really come with a new concept: stackable cars that you could pick at a subway station or in an airport. Of course, these cars will not be sold before several years.

Here is the first paragraph of the Guardian article.

It is not every day that a concept car re-writes the rules of more than 100 years of motoring. In development for four years by a team of architects and engineers led by William Mitchell, former head of the school of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as part of his Smart Cities research group, a new MIT car is borne of a complete rethink of people’s relationship with their cars in the ever-expanding cities of the future.​

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=119&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

I love stuff like this.. just saw them in a blurb in the July 2007 Stuff magazine.

I always wondered why no one had invented a car that would standup when needed.. even so far as being able to see over the car in front of you

zoom.. zoom.. zoom!

:hi: :imho:

 

[Humdizzy]

You don't need those when you have this... http://www.robopark.com/home_broadband.php

 

[commes]

Haha that robotic parking thing looks awesome! And the idea of cars that automatically stack themselves is a bit creepy lol