It’s kinda cool, but I guess I don’t understand the physics on how this can stop effectively without planting the rider into the pavement.
Maybe it’s solution is to not go very fast in the first place.
Which brings up another little issue - are these things supposed to use the street, when their top speed is 20mph?
So any congestion-alleviating properties this vehicle has by eliminating cars is effectively negated, if not exceeded, but it clogging up the roads putting along at 20mph. Great.
From the article:
“It’s much more of a getting-around-town thing...”
At 12.5mph/20mph, it’s not an open road vehicle, I’m guessing.