MIT's Smart Cities Lab is developing a whole new transportation system for urban environments one element of which could be the stackable City Car.
They are like luggage carts at the airport. You pick one up, use it briefly and drop it off at another location.
The City Car charges while stacked.
"It has displays, batteries onboard and different control systems that help us use the vehicle," said William Lark, an MIT research assistant. "But the key feature of this is the wheel itself.
"Instead of having a traditional drive train with mechanics throughout the vehicle," he said.
"We can localise everything to the wheel itself and do things like turn the wheel a full 120 degrees which allows us to have the vehicle spin on a dime, translate sideways, give you all the freedoms and movements that you might get just moving around as we do as humans today.
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