Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Don't Fix the Car, Reinvent Mobility


As of now the automotive industry has primarily been focused on redesigning the car and creating alternative forms of fuel. In this blog posting, the writer argues that instead we should be investigating alternative forms of mobility. The writer explains that even cars that do use alternative fuels still create problems, including room for storage and expensive infrastructure. They also describe some radical car concepts, the most interesting being Ahmad Filiz's globule design for Peugot. This concept consists of four separate motor-powered spheres contains one seat each that can be configured in different ways to form a globule shape; The spheres can even stack on top of each other. I agree with the writer in that we need to think in a whole new way to solve our societies dependency on the car. But until vehicles like the gobule can be sold on an accessible level to the general public we still need to look to alternative forms of fuel and work on making our cars better. (See original post here)



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