Narrow track vehicles - the convergence of the car and the motorcycle

[IsawUupThere]

How amazing does that L1 look... and you just know that IF it ever goes into production it's not going to look anything like that :'(

I really hope they prove me wrong.

[michaeljamescumming]

Really like the overall argument and approach here. Extremely well done.

[roymaitland]

Bicycles are more likely!

[zman6033]

i think GMs EN-V is cool

[cobe500]

Cool

[MIGHTYcbu]

why did they give the Tango two doors?

one door would give less complexity, less weight and add structural strength.

[ianabruce]

@MIGHTYcbu You're absolutely correct... it would also be less expensive. My guess would be to provide an additional exit in the event of a rollover.

[MIGHTYcbu]

@2:45 you are missing a couple of ,000

[waynedaydoyle]

Fantastic! Just what I'm looking for!

[4shacks1house]

But can it drift??

[grahambkk]

This viedo is nearly two years old. Strange that we don't seem to hear that much more about the release of some of these vehicles.

What we are seeing is cheaper conventional vehicles, and fossil fuels still not really very expensive.

I live in Bangkok, and I believe that cars and the fossil fuels to power them should be at least doubled in price.

What is happening is that we are seeing the road ahead go over a cliff, and all we are doing is hitting the accelerator!

[grumpystiltskin]

Very useful collection and history!

The Tango is fun to drive. But it isn't really zero emissions- it leaves clouds of rubber smoke at times. :-)

[boobootoob]

monorails and tiny little mini cars, let's go people.

[Mrflyright2day]

Flawless presentation!

Informative, well communicated, and great visuals. simply well done.

[dougaholic]

I know these cars are the future, But I just can't take them seriously, they look like toys! I'll stick to my motorbike for as long as I can!

[3nlighted]

Cool , but where do i put my ski-doo !? On the top ? Go to hydrogen = clean energy , i hate does compact non sense.

[Derp1978]

Japan seems to be the most innovative of countries to do the things they think up unlike others who just place a concept and then forgets it, because they are far to frugal.

[eljuandale]

Why so many stats?

[Vacre7]

PAUSE AT 21:17 AND LOOK IN THE BACKGROUND!

[03obietrice]

The only thing I can think of when I see these small cars is, how safe are they if you are involved in an accident. Don't get me wrong I love the idea and I can't wait till everyone is driving 100% electric cars. However they look like they'd be flattened by a mini cooper.

[benjicool2808]

americans should live like europeans simply

[mistmeow]

00:06 LOL, rubbing a dick. o3o

[zhbroder]

um, this vid is 23 mins long. count me in for 90…seconds

[rogerryan22]

they are not nearly as concerned about dying as you might be

that is just fantastic

[On3Shot]

The new prototype cars scream out loud GAY GAY GAY. Muscle cars FTW !

[ForceRecon198]

... or you could just get a motorcycle.

[miezatb]

But what happens when strong side winds hit the small vehicle?

or

Let's say you are traveling 100 km/h in a small vehicle of 450 kilos and from the other direction a 40 tone truck is heading your way at the same speed. The vehicles meet at a combined speed of 200 km/h, will it stay on course?

[kestas101]

@miezatb That is why the centre of gravity is so low, that makes it stable. And to the second part, there is no car that could save you..

[juxhesx]

@miezatb if that happens regularly to you then that says something about your driving

[dghgfhjgnxdgfhtfyuiy]

forget 2050 china already reached that goal

[Catalyst289]

Eco-awesome :D Love to have one - hope the 4 wheeled ones come out soon.

[superyoshiblast]

the 2 people that dislike drove it and died...

[shatta109]

i think the solution for transportation in a populated city is mass transit,subways,trains,buses for example NY which is around the 14th most populated city has the biggest mass transit in the world.75% of manhattan households do not own a car.i now see hybrid buses too

[MrBOB39]

Outstanding video !! .. Very informative and thorough..

Clearly these 3&4 wheeled narrow cars/motercycles-scooters are the way to go for likely 90-95% travel needs of a typical person daily... while minimizing traffic, energy usage as well as Green living advantages ..

[nataliatuckers]

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[takadi]

arggh I want all of them

[iosonofreddy]

piaggio was the first to do 3 wheels i have 1 ..... ve3rry nice video but i think u gave piaggio little or no credit , also the first hybrid was piaggio not peugeot also piaggio is already in production ... but still nice job overall.

[ajetkarameta]

bravooooooooooooo

[AshtonPhoto]

These 'single width' vehicles are all nice and lovely, but they'll still occupy one lane and one parking space in cities.

Also, people don't drive alone in 5 passenger cars to be obstinate, they do it for economics. That car has to cater to a huge (and unpredictable) variety of situations in its life, not just the daily commute.

The solution? One idea is "bike" lanes that only 'single width' cars and motorbikes can drive in. Similar to HOV lanes.

[seattleheretic]

The vehicles that are open, like the BMW C3 probably won't find much adoption in US markets that are in regions where there is inclement weather, or where the temps drop below 50 deg. F - even though they have windshields and roofs, as a motorcycle rider myself, I can tell you that riding a motorcycle or any open vehicle in that kind of weather just isn't practical or desirable for more people.

So, to be adopted, the vehicle has to be enclosed.

[ga69tes]

Thank you for an amazing video presentation! It was informative. I own a motorcycle for summer driving and have a car for the winter driving in Canada. If these tilting narrow track vehicles could navigate the snowy winter roads I would buy one to replace my car. I liked that Yamaha concept Tesseract! It's very similar to the quadro4motion Looking forward to the future!

[suzukiaddress125]

VW L1 is cool! but its latest model(XL1 which will be in production in 2013?) is ordinary side by side 2seater. I like L1's tandem style better!

[reallysillywilly]

Very nice! Well thought out and professional presentation. The concept of car/MC is right down my alley as I am in the planning and parts gathering stage of building my own reverse trike. I am seriously considering making it tilt if I can do it right. The covered motorcycle will certainly extend the riding season. If done well, it should suffice for the whole years driving needs.

[z0nt21]

Reinventing the bicycle - all of these concepts will fail, because the market says they will.

That's why UN & co. are increasing taxes on energy, along with VAT.

[scootergrisen]

I dont belive that people in europe spend 25% of they road time in trafic jams.

[MrDadydad]

@scootergrisen

lol... I do. I live near a big city in europe and see it happen every day. I spend 25 min. on my daily trip on motorcycle, would be at least 45 min. driving a car. People underestimate the time wasted in trafic jams. I just don't get it why they keep on spilling so much time and don't seek out alternatives.

[AshtonPhoto]

@MrDadydad

People are funny. They'll move to the suburbs and then get a 9-5 job in the city and sit in traffic for an hour each way, every day!!

Most people just accept this as normal but I absolutely refuse to.

[harkoll]

@AshtonPhoto The problem really is that all the folks can't live in downtown. Alternative is not to live in cities, but that again won't be feasible if you consider the livelihood. Having people living in far out places creates an infrastructure delivery problem as well. So, it is a no-win situation.

[AshtonPhoto]

@harkoll

You may be right.

[m1accorder]

@AshtonPhoto

What is your driving/working/living condition? Not all of us live in the stick and work in the city. I live in surburb but I work in the stick 40 miles away. That is the best paying job around here. Either that or working in D.C. and that would be 2.5 hrs each day in shitty traffic. I don't sit in traffic, I cruise through it and there is absolutely no traffic jam.

[AshtonPhoto]

@m1accorder

No, not everyone has a horrible commute, just most.

Our city's expressway is 7 lanes wide. Every morning and every evening it's jammed for 25 miles.

People make their own driving/working/living conditions.

Good for you!! I **hate** sitting in traffic too!

[antjel1]

@AshtonPhoto Most people can't afford to live in the city.

[AshtonPhoto]

@antjel1

Fine, but why get a job in a city 30 miles away when *you know* you'll be sitting in stop-and-go traffic every single day?!?! It makes no sense.

[inagod]

@AshtonPhoto I agree,we really need to rethink about the type of vehicles we use to commute to the city,large cars with one person,is a waste of space and energy and your money.I say a enclosed self balancing motorcycle.

[xxfaultxx]

The C3 motorcycle may be safe, but its ugly as sin

[trakkaton]

It is seldom that one stumbles across such a good and well-structured presentation.

[MCthecount]

prijavi se na lotosistem com i osvoji vrijedne nagrade!

[MCthecount]

prijavi se na lotosistem i osvoji vrijedne nagrade!

[EdwinRamos89]

Awesome



[afghanakk]

its all good but in winter time i think this machine cant make it . and the crush test think if you crush with a suv ....

[megariot]

Can I still pull a camper?

[Lukeschedel]

There needs to be a round roll cage type thing around it or just on the side or when you fall over your gona bust your head wide open

[salamalycoom]

It's an exciting concept hope we see these machines in Australia soon

[505197]

I've been saying for a long time that cars need to get narrower and passengers need to ride in tandem to accomplish that. One thing I've not figured out is what happens on a leaning vehicle when you need to countersteer in a slide, it would end up tilting the "wrong" way.

[2525jkelly]

@505197 I am going to say that counter steering and other fun things that loosing traction when driving gives you, will be neatly removed by a state of the art vehicle stabilization system. Such will be the way forward in the vast majority of vehicles as it is already taken hold for some years now.

[upuliify]

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[nunogirao]

@MisterHugoStiglitz

Then you must be a very nice guy, always trying to knock down every motorcycle that passes you. Citizenship at the best! Sight....

[iciavosser]

There are fewer than 1.000.000 cars in use on the planet right now? That's bullshit, too. There's more than 25,000,000 people in Texas alone!!!! And I would have to say that even a modest guess of car owners in Texas is way over 1,000,000. Even if that's somehow too generous, add in California, and New York, and everything in between....Less that 1,000,000 cars in use is simply stupid. And that's just in the U.S. Amazingly off-target! What morons.

[Driiven]

@iciavosser He means 1 billion. 

[spinycrayfish]

the buddhist mindset of the Thai's mean they're not nearly as concerned about dying as you might be...

[kirdook]

That 385 cars per capita is bullshit. I'd like to see the source of these numbers, and I'm pretty sure this number doesn't account for population growth at all.

[z978ady]

Bring back the Crosley.

[nunogirao]

If you're in a normal car, would you let one of these pass by you, splitting lanes like a motorcycle? I don't think so. The only vehicle with that ability is the motorcycle. This is just another nice little car, «parked» in traffic congestion.

[hunterziegelmann]

If they got rid of the crap electric motor and put in the deisel AUDI motor thats gets 300mpg and then they need to make it look less like an ugly toyota but thats just me. Some or even a lot of people may say the whole car is ingenious.

[davisgreen2020]

I hope ALL these vehicles go into production before 2013 !!

[arqmarioesqueda]

Why the automotive industry has taken so long to make that great leap ?,,,,, who does not agree?

[atbee]

Its a very good video. But the final conclusion that mass transit is the solution with very small mobility vehicles for the last mile, being the long term solution, is incorrect. This is the short term solution. The medium term solution is to build narrow vehicles with narrow lanes, then the long term solution is to build Personal Rapod Transit from small, electronically controlled vehicles, with special (ultra light) trackways. Capacity can be increased by an order of magnitude (cheaply).

[101thehunter]

WOW!

[yzorg]

love the cockpit design

[deezynar]

Great video. The only thing missing was whether governments would take some standard lanes and cut them in half so these 1/2 width vehicles could use them side by side.

[iiXxNaSTyxX1]

@deezynar highly doubt that seeing that the smart car can be driven side by side lol

[mgarrbomberstm]

malta.. we are 5th!! OMG

[FriderikD]

Traffic flow controls need updating as well. Start/Stop cycles kill commuting speed and waste prodigious energy. Traffic circles must replace all stops. Cars need to be linked and controlled at slow speeds to enable high volume flow.

[euandykes]

I enjoyed this report, although you missed including the Peraves monotracer. Just looking back at some of those photos of heavy congestion. The gaps between the cars are probably too small for many of the concepts shown. It's not just the narrow presents of a bike that makes it able to carve through traffic but also it's short wheelbase to be able to weave in tight radii.

[madaboutvoice]

This is an excellent comprehensive report backed up with a great video.

But isn't it a great shame that most companies cater to people's ego's and sense of status by manufacturing huge boxes with too much power at the expense of mass production of narrow drive vehicles as featured in this report? Would you believe that a 100cc scooter will cost you close to $5,000 in Australia and am pretty doubtful that anything like the roofed 3 wheeler 150cc could be had for less than $6000. Robbery!

[vissus2]

"Converge" this developing market with a convertible "option" of easy to apply, Snap-On (TM) snowmobile tracs that consumers may purchase for regions with enough snow to monetarily qualify the option purchase.

[baptista4555]

Great video.

[ALGWAD971]

gr8 vid. Str8 to my faves... Welcome to the new decade!

[Postman79giorgio]

we must think to our sons for their future!

[Postman79giorgio]

Meraviglioso pensare di girare con questi mezzi!!! Fantastico veramente. M a perchè non smettono di fare auto come la Punto e poi la Punto EVO. LA vera evoluzione penso siano questi mezzi di trasporto-auto-moto ibridi ed elettrici che son validi e se non sono in commercio è perchè danno fastidio alle compagnie petrolifere del mondo. Dobbiamo pensare ai nostri figli ! ! ! !

[gjc82071]

This video is cool & all, but I was more alarmed by the population statistics. I just don't see how they can be sustainable. You have countries doubling, tripling, & even quadrupling their populations, while some of those very same countries can barely feed themselves NOW. I don't think this planet can sustain 10-15-20 billion people. Will it ever max out? Or will there be 1 trillion people in the year 2150?

[itsthemechanic]

@gjc82071 You are absolutely right.. it's estimated that the hard limit of what this planet can sustain is around 10 billion people.

[jsound42]

@itsthemechanic and the worst part is that the people breeding at those rates aren't exactly the world future surgeons or rocket scientists...

[oliverburke]

More kudos for the vids:

This is the 2nd gizmag vid I've seen and I concur with the other appreciators.

Narrator's voice is so cool. Informational: neither flat & boring or too hypey, trying to match the newest booming techno or other modern music back drop.

Really seems knowledgeable.

Good stuff!

Then a wonderful blend of stills, action, and data figures. Good stuff.

Really high quality/substance videos.

[chrisjhart221138]

Bloody great vid though :-)

[chrisjhart221138]

God, your voice sounds like you live on a diet of whisky and cigars. I applaud you

[lozzobear]

Sensational video, brilliant work.

[pgm98387]

Thanks for posting this very informative video. I can see these urban vehicles being loaded onto commuter trains just like cars driving onto and off of a Ferry. The future is looking bright with electricity!

[p3l1k44n1]

@pgm98387

Indeed! the future is looking really bright after seeing these vehicles.. i only hope to live that long that i can actually get to drive one of these.. money is always a problem but maby you can get a cheap one after a few of years when there is a version what is fully designed..

[DTWebcastTV]

very cool

[dkman222]

very cool, imagine what they'll be like when they get fast.

[phantompowermusic]

whats going on i just would like you feed back on my videos

[lockhughes]

YouTube really needs another "star"... for "fabulous"

...as in six stars out of five...

Thank you

Lock

[eeedel]

i look forward to driving one.