| Farstar | 12 Jul 2012 4:01 p.m. PST |
link link Food for SF and ultra-modern thought. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 Jul 2012 4:19 p.m. PST |
Would be curious how they secure the wheelchair-bound driver in… seems a safety hazard if he's still in the wheelchair. …a top speed of 25 MPH… And that will just add to congestion on the roadways. |
| richarDISNEY | 12 Jul 2012 4:27 p.m. PST |
Awesomesauce! I now have a built in designated driver!
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| ciaphas | 12 Jul 2012 5:56 p.m. PST |
given that here in the uk everyone on a cycle should use the queens highway the amount of ooiks using the pedestrian walkway is enough to make ones boil. but to answer the above to add yet another slow moving thing to the overused british road network is stupid unless there is a massive move towards all monies claimed by the government through road tax being used on the roads and not for some flavour of the month nonsense. jon |
| Mako11 | 12 Jul 2012 6:39 p.m. PST |
I can imagine the wrongful death lawyers just salivating over these new products….. |
| AndrewGPaul | 13 Jul 2012 2:53 a.m. PST |
The Kenguru can only be better than the previous attempt at a car specifically for the disabled:
(You'd never have thought that thing was built by the same comapny that made the first Cobras.) |
| Klebert L Hall | 13 Jul 2012 6:07 a.m. PST |
Since my car is 18.5 feet long, no, I don't think it's small. Even though a good portion of my previous cars have been larger.
-Kle. |
Patrick Sexton  | 13 Jul 2012 8:44 a.m. PST |
"And a high top speed becomes virtually useless when you have to navigate bad traffic." Hell, that is when high top speed comes in REAL handy. And AC Cars built the little blue Proto- Dalleck, eh? |
| ordinarybass | 13 Jul 2012 11:17 a.m. PST |
At the price point, I'm not sure it's going to be much more popular than standard cars with modifications, but it certainly seems to be a well executed product that should be viable when they increase the top speed. |
| Griefbringer | 13 Jul 2012 2:06 p.m. PST |
unless there is a massive move towards all monies claimed by the government through road tax being used on the roads As far as I have been informed, there is no such thing as road tax in her majesty's realm (at least nowadays). As for the Kenguru vehicle in the original post, that really looks like it is begging to have a boatload of clowns packed inside. Or perhaps some armour plate around, MG mounted on the top, and a mad pulp genius (bent on world domination) inside. |
| Number6 | 13 Jul 2012 2:39 p.m. PST |
>>…a top speed of 25 MPH… >And that will just add to congestion on the roadways. I used to commute 25 miles to work each day. Some of that was on an interstate highway with a speed limit of 65mph and some was on city streets with speeds of 35-45 mph. But guess what? It always took over an hour to get there, so my average speed was under 25mph. So let's stop fooling ourselves. If we set the speed limit to 25mph (except for intercity travel), we would get where we are going in the same amount of time, save a huge amount of fuel, and more importantly, the death and injury rate on the roads would drop to almost zero. |
| chironex | 14 Jul 2012 5:06 a.m. PST |
I think you're using the wrong operand there. Your equation doesn't account for bogans or the fact that in the unlikely event anyone cares what the limit is, they will still run red lights and cut off three lanes etc. This invention also seems to have been designed by someone who has never been to Australia… |
| Zephyr1 | 14 Jul 2012 3:00 p.m. PST |
New "green" transportation system as proposed by British gov't: link 
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