If you’ve watched GhostHunters on the Sci Fi Network, I know you’ve seen the clip of the girl parking her gigantic SUV, then folding it up and putting it straight in her purse. I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone saw that commercial and said, “I gotta do THAT!” Enter Franco Vairani, one of the students working on the City Car Project at MIT.

It’s quite possible he’s never watched GhostHunters, or Sci Fi. Heck , he may not even have a TV, but the man is one of a handful working to design a commuter car that folds in half and stacks next to 7 other automobiles.

In his vision of the future, people would find a stack of electrical-powered City Cars on nearly every block in the city. When a user would want to drive somewhere in town, he would swipe a smart card or cell phone across an electronic reader and take a car out of the stack. When he gets to a business meeting across town, a shopping mall or their doctor’s office, the driver simply leaves the car in a stack at his destination. The drivers don’t own the cars. They simply rent them. It’s fully self-service. The next person takes a car out of the stack, and off he goes.

Excellent idea for city commuters. Read the full story here.

Post from: EveryJoe

City Car Project – MIT students create stackable, foldable car