My first "car" was a Piaggio Ape. In theory it was for one person. In practice you could put 2 people in the cabin and 2 more in the back unless you were going up hill.
Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
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Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#22Reminds me of the car that the character Peter Gregory drove in the show Silicon Valley.
https://www.thedrive.com/a-list/3171/5-times-silicon-valley-...
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
we have self-driving cars already, they're called trains
Show me a train that can show up at my grandmother's door and drop her at the doctor's.
There’s a train outside my front door that will drop me off at the front of UCSF. But that’s about 10 stops away and requires a transfer. If one doesn’t mind the bus, there’s one that picks up in front of my door and drops off at the hospital (the bus stop is even closer to the main entrance than the parking garage!)
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#24> Priced at $18,500, it also costs about half as much as the current average sales price for a new passenger vehicle
Well, it is significantly more limited than most new passenger vehicles, both in terms of how many people/things it can haul and its safety when sharing the road with vehicles that are on the road today.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
From experience, the main issues, aside from weather, with using a motorcycle as your sole means of transport are: - You can't take an arbitrary person as passenger (they need gear and pillion experience) - You can't take more than a backpack's worth of cargo (slightly expandable with panniers) This can't take a passenger at all, and looks like it has the same cargo restrictions. It looks fun but I can't see it repla…
There is also the danger factor... you are 27 times more likely to die driving the same distance on a motorcycle as in a car. I don’t think I would want to take that risk.
What is the absolute number? Eg 27*0 is still 0 (note I'm not suggesting it's actually 0)
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#27> Priced at $18,500, it also costs about half as much as the current average sales price for a new passenger vehicle Well, it is significantly more limited than most new passenger vehicles, both in terms of how many people/things it can haul and its safety when sharing the road with vehicles that are on the road today.
And there's many good cars too (Corolla, Civic, etc) that you can get around the same price here in the US...
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#28The OEMs website has much better detail and pictures [1].
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#29Reminds me of the car that the character Peter Gregory drove in the show Silicon Valley. https://www.thedrive.com/a-list/3171/5-times-silicon-valley-...
That's a Tango.
Apparently Sergey Brin had one.
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#30Reserved one :)