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Stop the presses - I thought it was an ugly POS with no real reason to exist ($125K for a glorified Civic?!?). But if you can get aftermarket wheels on it, suddenly it seems like a cool idea.
But seriously - hoping we can emerge from the tyranny of the short-attention-span thinking and approach transportation from a macro perspective. As others have noted, we already have good reliable tech to produce massive improvements in efficiency, without adding new environmental and economic burdens. For what it would cost to put half the households into one of these, you could probably fund a fantastic network of functional bus/subway and Uber-type vehicles that would save energy, but also have many other benefits (transport for those who can't drive, or are too drunk to do so safely). If we could get Timmy to soccer practice some other way, we might even wake up and start to legislate a bit better about unsafe teen drivers, in-car texting, etc.
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