If there is one thing people love, it’s personal mobility. After all, what other species regularly harness other creatures for the sole purpose of getting around. The auto industry is all about personal mobility. Since the dawn of the car in the late 19th century, it has been adopted world-wide as one of the preferred means of getting around.
Mobility, of course, is about a lot more than just driving. Just moving around is important and when people find themselves unable to move or having difficulty, It plays havoc with the psyche. As populations in many countries get older, reduced mobility is an increasing problem. A number of automakers are researching ways to expand mobility beyond the automobile and the result is projects like GM’s Puma and Toyota’s Winglet. Honda, too, is studying the problem and while the Autoblog Green team were in Japan for the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda took them to their R&D center to check out a few of their recent projects. And one of them was the quirky U3-X. Read on for a first hand account of what they saw…
I wonder if this kind of technology can somehow benefit senior citizens out there…
(Via Autoblog Green)
