It looks like the second coming of Flash Gordon – the GyroCar. Here’s the official request for funding:
Lloyd Alter on Treehugger.com treats it with some sarcasm:
It’s all very cleverly engineered; it’s round because there is a giant flywheel underneath, giving it stability. It has two generators and a backup generator to keep it spinning.
This is such a wonderful idea. It excites me so, to see yet another solution to the single biggest urban problem of our times: How to keep the roads dedicated to the moving and storing of private cars.
Me? I’m keeping an eye on my leg.