European car manufacturers are tripping over themselves to figure out how personal transport and
"last mile"
solutions will look in the years to come.
The solutions are always #electric, and they're also #tiny.
What most companies
(except Citroen, Renault, and Fiat)
seem to have forgotten is that we've had an answer to this problem all along: the #microcar.
The microcar's job is to frugally take one person (or maybe two people) where they need to go
— while taking up as little space as possible.
A few have broken their way into the public consciousness
Top Gear made a global megastar of Peel's cars,
BMW's Isetta remains a design icon, and
the Messerschmitt KR200 is just plain cool
— but where did these tiny wonders come from?
And do they have a future?
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/small-cheap-and-weird-a-history-of-the-microcar/