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Photo of a man in a car in a subway train

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:43 am Tue, Sep 13, 2011

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From Reddit. Best guess is that it's a Kenguru car.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • RobDobbs

    The wheels are too small. maybe it’s a fan-built Super-Deformed Smart Car? That’s be cool.

  • Tom Pappalardo

    It’s like the Top Gear elevator ride!

  • Pasketti

    I am reminded of the Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson drove a Peel P50 into and around a BBC office.

  • Brainspore

    Hey, beats sitting in traffic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Bigler/100001141721080 Susan Bigler

    I’m just imagining trying to maneuver that thing through the New York City subways…nope, no way.

    • Felton / Moderator

      It didn’t have to.  The subway train is actually sitting in a cargo ship.

      • Brainspore

        The subway train is actually sitting in a cargo ship.

        Also, the driver crammed a small bicycle into the car. And he’s wearing roller skates. It’s a veritable transit turducken.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S76XIS53F7LSF4SGCB4GQ4HH4Q rifleman

    It’s an Obama Car! Seats one, runs on solar for 15 minutes and then dies!

    • cdh1971

      I’m not sure I get the Obama reference. I you said Al Gore it’d make sense to me.

  • Svein Ola Egseth

    From Oslo, Norway. Next station is Majorstuen.

  • mappo

    Multimodal transportation.

  • DewiMorgan

    Based on wheel size, I’d say this is probably an electric wheelchair with a top, rather than a car.

    Which is good: exhaust fumes in a poorly ventilated train might be bad, though I guess so would lots of people breathing, so maybe it wouldn’t be an issue.

  • joeposts

    Kenguru car is pretty neat. Modifying regular vehicles for wheelchair access can be very expensive and vehicles like that could work for most manual wheelchair users. If the guy in the photo can’t use his legs, I’m okay with him driving around the subway. He can even run over my foot. But if he can walk, and is just driving out of sheer laziness, well, that’s just slothful. And that’s a sin!

    I’ve always hoped small vehicles would become popular. Who wouldn’t want to live in a city full of Peel P50s? Bikes, scooters and motorcycles are great but there should be more tiny cars, man.

  • http://profiles.google.com/adgth1 ADGTH 1

    Yo dawg, I heard you like transportation! So we put transportation in transportation so you can ride while you ride!

    • GertaLives

      Damn it, I just clicked on the comments to drop a yo dawg.
      As usual, I’m late to the internet.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Yo dawg, I heard you like yo dawg comments, so I’m dropping a yo dawg comment after your yo dawg comment.

  • http://twitter.com/bigbadchang Chang Terhune

    Reminds me of the Palanquin’s from Al Reynolds “Revelation Space” books.

  • Ephraim Dickstein

    Definitely Oslo.

  • digi_owl

    Hard to tell the age of the person from the photo, but i am guessing it is a 3 wheeler that elderly people may be provided. First time i have seen such a vehicle with a roof tho.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kyleostreet Kyle O Street

    Yo dog, …

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693064597 Ian Whitehouse

    A kenguru.. isnt that a south african marsupial ?

  • http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

    Christ, what an asshole!

  • https://plus.google.com/110351916304126121516/about Sébastien Pérot

    So this is a man in a car in a car of a subway train.