It's the year 2020 - What would you rather 'have'?


Judging from the bystanders, Google car measures approx. HxWxL: 1.65 x 1.65 x 2.90 m. A bit bigger than the Smart Car.

The freeing up of resources by intensifying car usage through car- and/or ride- sharing and enabling the physically challenged (and the drunk) to stay mobile are the robo car's biggest assets, with which Google wants to disrupt the auto industry as well as public transport. 

That's all admirable. However, the prospect is that we'll stay responsible for a long time. Dozing off in self-driving cars is out of the question. What better to involve the person behind the steering wheel than to offer a new take on driving? It's why we game, not some robot. As long as there will be a choice, going from A to B needn't be that joyless. Also, this needn't be the end of the 'personal car' as we know it. For instance, Apple's reinvention of the good ol' phone went so far, that usage and ownership (of its iPhone) was taken to a whole new level. The magic word is reinvent! 
One can already envisage a sort of "Best of Both Worlds Auto-Mobile" appear on the horizon: relax in auto-mode, enjoy in manual override mode - even more than in today's cars. Click here to read howThe "Smart ForThree" or New iSetta you see here, is narrower than your average car (ditto Google's car), so you get to enjoy taking it down the road more than you'd do in a sports car that has less space to move around because of its width. In the 'ForThree' there's just more road to play with. 

click on picture for 'dimensioning the ForThree'


The wanna'have' index: usability & range| comfort| safety| costs| ecology| Fahrvernügen 

So, which car would you rather pick, or vice versa, rather have to pick up you? 
The utilitarian, bland-looking Google robo car without the possibility of 'manual override' or... the utilitarian, distinctive-looking  'ForThree'  that's meant to offer both: self-driving and driving yourself.
Ralph Panhuyzen
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Automotive experts already acknowledged the 'outside the (car) box' vehicle described/depicted here as a viable alternative, and doable to engineer. Auctor intellectualis (and IP holder) Ralph Panhuyzen was involved with the scientific study on car mobility (ISBN-13: 978-90-442-0015-7) in the Netherlands (one of the most densely populated countries in the world) which was held under the auspices of the NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. NB: this presentation is put together for assessment and publicity purposes only. Unauthorized use forbidden. The New Isetta aka Smart ForThree is not an open source project, and formally OHIM registered. If in doubt about the semantics of what is "authorized" (literally: of, by or from the author) and what is not (presenting or using what has been created by someone else as if it were yours) consult a legal expert. 

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