Interesting idea from Toyota the I-Real personal vehicle

[motormania]

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/10/10/toy...

Could you imagine these on British roads in a few years...

[SpeedyGonzales]

NO!

[Conian]

Oh wow yeah!
But only in cities

I can see multi-storey car parks having 1 whole floor especially for these things.

Then the aftermarket parts will kick in.

Huge spoilers and fins.
LED's all over.
Uprated motors
low riders!

Boris Johnson might sell his push-bike and there would be a whole forum about them.

[robbyt]

you will never see these on uk roads! While people can still walk it wont happen. Stupid concept and a concept for the sake of a concept

[Einion Yrth]

article said:

capable of speeds up to 18.6 mile per hour. And, like the I-Unit, the I-Real can go from an upright position to a reclined position for its High-Speed Mode.

High speed?

[T0nup]

Another Sinclair C% moment then.

[CaneyJ]

Maybe if I broke both my legs I'd fit in just fine ridning that

[LuS1fer]

It's a wheelchair isn't it?

[palexile]

article said:

capable of speeds up to 18.6 mile per hour. And, like the I-Unit, the I-Real can go from an upright position to a reclined position for its High-Speed Mode.

I can ride my pedal bike faster than that. I am reminded of those useless electric go-carts you see crippled old ladies trying to negotiate round supermarkets, making an 11 point turn into the cheese aisle.

[AJS-]

It's been a full 5 minutes since I loaded that page up and I'm still laughing out loud.

It's basically a way of making walking more difficult. It looks like a caravan toilet.

I can imagine going outside in the morning and finding the local drunk passed out in "your car." You'd have to kick him out every day.

This is something that some design intern from has done to make Toyota look green. They were going to let him design the ash tray light, but he wasn't up to it.

Can you imagine a traffic jam of these things? Any road range incident would mean black eyes all round. Anyone driving in London would reach their destination beaten to a pulp, if they reached it at all without getting squashed by someone laughing so hard that they forget to avoid them.

Good work boys.

Edited by AJS- on Wednesday 17th October 10:39