Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Want a Car-like scooter? # 1 Define ;" scooter"
Something like an electric Vespa with a sidecar perhaps ? cargo box..
rather than a Razor Scooter with a battery under the deck and a motor rear wheel. Ala skateboard with a handle..
Lots of smaller options become viable when speed limits in certain areas are lowered. If/when we see populated areas dropping to 20mph throughout, all sorts of small electric vehicles become more attractive than big cars and trucks that are designed for highway speeds and crashes at those speeds.
Hopefully the big, fast, highway-oriented vehicles will do what they were once meant to do when Eisenhower planned the federal highway system, i.e. stay on the highways. The challenge with this is that people like to show up in their highway machine and step out it onto the red carpet, so to speak. The problem is that is a waste of space for everyone to be able to do that and the question becomes at what level of rural/suburban congestion do people start preferring to avoid traffic instead of dealing with it?