{"id":945,"date":"2006-04-28T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2009-07-25T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T07:48:41","slug":"clever-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/clever-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-946\" title=\"clevercar-uk\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/clevercar-uk.jpg\" alt=\"clevercar-uk\" width=\"400\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/clevercar-uk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/clevercar-uk-255x96.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in England have been working on a prototype for a \u201cclever\u201d (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car.\u00a0 The car has three wheels and tilts for easy manueverability.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The prototype is purely a research project and is unlikely to come to market in its present form.<\/p>\n<p>But the researchers hope that car companies may build on its ideas, and that the design may even pave the way for a new class of city vehicles somewhere between motorbikes and cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine that they could re-jig the [London] congestion charge to just allow motorcycles and Clever vehicles, but not cars,\u201d said Mr Drew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is to showcase the vehicle and start the process of laying down the groundwork for this third way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full story \u201c<a title=\"Green mini-car to beat congestion\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4930794.stm\">Green mini-car to beat congestion<\/a>\u201d by Jonathan Fildes,  BBC News science and technology reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in England have been working on a prototype for a \u201cclever\u201d (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car.\u00a0 The car has three wheels and tilts for easy manueverability. The prototype is purely a research project and is unlikely to come to market in its present form. But the researchers hope that car companies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[59,255,45,294,295],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-design","tag-environment","tag-technology","tag-transportation","tag-urban"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}