*One might have known that the RCA would be all over this. But to see it picked up by Shareable, that's even more interesting.
http://www.shareable.net/blog/for-the-future-of-car-sharing-look-inside-the-box
"What's wrong with cars today?
"When two recent graduates from the Royal College of Art surveyed the cars and trucks swirling about the streets of London, all they could think was "dirty and anti-social."
"Car-sharing is a way to access urban transportation without sacrificing the flexibility of a personal vehicle. But car-sharing services simply spread the consequences of dirty, anti-social cars between more people, so the relative cost and waste are reduced.
"James Brooks and Richard Bone decided that what the car-sharing industry really needed was a personal car designed specifically for inner-city shared use. And so they designed one.
"The Box (above) is a quadracycle powered by a small, flat battery with a 25-mile range and a top speed of 35 mph. The four-passenger Box is similar in size to the Smart Fortwo and is specifically envisioned as a car-sharing vehicle.
"To make the Box more social and easier to share, Brooks and Bone did away with the low, sleek design we've come to expect in modern cars. An aerodynamic shape makes almost no difference when you're crawling along in urban traffic, and all those sexy lines actually reduce the amount of space available for passengers and parcels.
"Although it has a carbon footprint that's identical to the two-seater smart car, the Box's boxy shape allows 4 passengers, even those with physical disabilities, to ride comfortably.
"With an emphasis on utility and efficiency, Brooks and Bone also decided to strip the car of all unecessary electronics, and instead designed the car to interface with the smart phones that almost everyone is carrying in their pockets these days...."
