MIT Media Lab's folding CityCar

This 'folding car' from MIT Media Lab could change the way we travel in cities. We caught up with one of the team behind it at Media Evolution's The Conference, to find out more.

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Science & Technology

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• MIT
• MIT Media Lab
• car
• travel
• transport

[ilikecheetos12]

what happens when someone is still in the car when it is compacting???

[C6R1S]

Japan had a concept of this vehicle 4-5 years ago as i recall. so what is this an american ripoff

[yassamena17]

@ilikecheetos12 nothing it compacts so u can park it so im guessing u can drive it compacted but at very low speeds.

[iluvswaffles]

@ilikecheetos12 One word: squish

[iluvswaffles]

@C6R1S Nope. It's the American follow-through. The Japs never even finished it...

[NYxWiTiT]

@D33cious ur A dumbass he said it was a small prototype u fuck up

[theNHLbound]

@codzboy74 That made me laugh thanks :)

[codzboy74]

It'll fold up real nice when it hits an F-150

[TheGemselle]

Sadly the concept of shared cars will never work since most people are too lazy to drop it off at a station then walk home (unless the car can drive itself back to its station).

[fufueater]

@C6R1S Look up history when Americans arrived with big canons on their ships to Japan Japanese had no idea what it was. Then they end up sending people from japan to Europe to study coz they were like 100 years behind and disconnected.

So they ripped or learned all the knowledge long ago from everyone else :)

[ChummyChime]

@jlaffoon24

Wrong.... It doesn't matter how careful you are it depends mostly on the other drivers around.