Comments on: Car on a Stick by Ross Lovegrove

By: Vayu

Vayu — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:54 +0000

I love this idea!! needs a little work but it’s a great concept design, along with a pretty sound functioning plan.

By: Random guy

Random guy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:51:46 +0000

did anyone notice the tire is scraping across the ground because its not propperly aligned with the other tires
and the tires are so small it couldn’t be very fast
and wouldn’t the seat be like sitting on a rail
Where is the previously mentioned storage
My $0.02

By: McK

McK — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:02:31 +0000

Car on a Stick? Is that what we call a target for missiles thrown by drunk adolescents? There is one reason why this would not work and it is not a design/technology flaw: In most metropolitan centres, in most developed nations of the world, a Car on a Stick would be destroyed by vandals within hours. Indeed, any city where these would not be vandalised would be so damn boring, you wouldn’t want to go there.

In the future… people will walk. Period.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:09:01 +0000

just had a really amusing image in my head… so they carry four people… But hang on… surely during rush hour, you could squeeze say, 15 people in them??? Come on, at a push, we Londoners know exactly how to make use of every single available space offered up – i am sure I have performed mouse-like skeletal contortions on the tube over the years…. Think the central carriages on the Central line at 8.30am but in full view of everyone on the streets of london.. squashed faces, stinky bubbles… brawls in a bubble

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:01:24 +0000

I like the idea that the pod is multi functional… BUT can you imagine lots (hundreds!!!)of these on the roads? With all the other modes of transport that one needs in a city… If you hate the bendy bus then this seems to take things to and entirely new level… So, they carry 4 passengers…FOUR!!! all wanting to to go to different places and shops on Oxford street..breaking down with no-one about to fix them…… i can only imagine a road that ends up looking something like bubble wrap! I am all for interesting solutions for the future of urban transport – especially ones that consider environmental issues… BUT I cannot see these working at all… Surely well designed (with solar panels?) trams that carry many more people may be a better option than a small bubble? I dunno….. beats me…

I love my bike!

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:00:24 +0000

I guess this does not need a crumple zone or seat belts because it cannot crash. But then again I wouldnt want to be seen dead in one!

By: Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:52:54 +0000

Never noticed before how much the ground level of the gherkin looks like the tokyo prada store (or vice-versa, which came first escapes me)

By: charles

charles — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:29:48 +0000

I had great time with this project while I was high.
It felt as if it were the greatest satirical invention.

By: eyes

eyes — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:00:12 +0000

I think the public car concept much like the public bike system Velib in Paris is a great initiative. Unfortunately the car on a stick vision proposed here is a very poor physical manifestation of futuristic public transport.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:37:59 +0000

One last thought,
I think the concept of organic essentialism is fantastic and that not one person should be expected to resolve the world’s problems in the field of transportation. Hopefully some one will give Ross’s aesthetic/conservation of form sensibilities a chance to become realised is some sort of vehicle in the future. I don’t believe this is contradictory to my previous post. The formal DNA is good, the product is not.