Time to rethink city driving again—or more specifically, city parking.
Imagine having an ultra-compact, 2-seater electric car that can self-park, slide into any spot sideways or even diagonally, and if the parking space still isn’t big enough, the car body hoists up and folds forward, shrinking from roughly 7.5 feet long to just 5.2 feet.
To compare, a Smart car is 8.8 feet long and even a Vespa scooter is over 5.8 feet.
A team of engineers at the University of Bremen’s DFKI Robotics Innovation Center in Germany built the EO—“I go” in Latin—car to be the ultimate urban solution for congested cities with high competition for parking—cities just like New York.
The car is remarkably nimble. Each wheel has its own motor allowing it to rotate 90 degrees.
