You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Last Updated: Apr 16th, 2008 - 13:54:46
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with an innovative way to reduce traffic and parking congestion in major cities around the world—a folding car.
According to recent Reuters report, Bill Mitchell, an MIT professor of architecture, along with a team of a dozen or so engineers and fellow architects, have created a design for a vehicle that would fold in half, enabling it to be stacked like a shopping cart with other folding cars.
Mitchell’s team envisions stations of foldable cars deployed around major cities, similar to the bicycle kiosks installed last year in downtown Paris, allowing consumers to swipe a credit card and use the vehicle for errands and around town transportation.
A miniature mock-up of the folding car has reportedly already been created, and there are plans to build a full-scale model of the vehicle later this year.
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