Hasta La Ideas

Luxury automaker Audi has tapped a handful of German and Mexican engineering and design students for the “A0,” an electric “monocycle” that is something like a seated Segway with a hubless wheel. It’s easily more futuristic-looking than its underwhelming predecessor, but I question its purported application: the “A0” is a portable counterpart to an Audi, intended to expedite what is presumably a grueling walk from a parked car to one’s final destination.

The project is an electrical monocycle aiming Audi users which can be combined with the normal use of a personal car, allowing the user to move in megacities easily and quick[ly]. This Integration would work in a way that the user should drive his Audi from home to any parking lot in the way to his final destination. Once the car has been parked, the user gets the A0 out of the trunk, unfolds it, activates it and would continue driving to work, university, shopping mall, etc.

If it weren’t for the video documentation (below), I would have filed the “A0” in the so-called “There’s No Way This Thing Can Be Real department,” along with BPG Motors’ “Uno III” folding electric bike.

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