The main question for me is what kinds of paths this is expected to use.
If you can take this on bike paths and into pedestrianized areas, it clearly already has a small niche. If it can only fit on a regular car lane, it’s terrible.
It is clearly much wider than any normal bike, meaning it would allways use up most of the space on the bike path, it is heavy and dangerous to other bikes in a collision, and since it has to stop for deliveries it will clog up the bike paths.
No, just use a milk float on normal roads, way better than a normal van, and it can use existing infrastructure that it was actually designed for.
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I am sorry, that is dumb.
I am all for less cars in cities, but this is a terrible design.
Why does the control system have to be a bike?
Why is the driver so exposed both to the elements and other drivers?
Why give the driver shit rear and side visibillity?
No, just do something like an old milk float design, don’t reinvent the wheel all the time.
A milk float is already designed for local deliveries at a low cost, with a normal driving interface.
The main question for me is what kinds of paths this is expected to use.
If you can take this on bike paths and into pedestrianized areas, it clearly already has a small niche. If it can only fit on a regular car lane, it’s terrible.
No, that is a terrible way to think about it.
It is clearly much wider than any normal bike, meaning it would allways use up most of the space on the bike path, it is heavy and dangerous to other bikes in a collision, and since it has to stop for deliveries it will clog up the bike paths.
No, just use a milk float on normal roads, way better than a normal van, and it can use existing infrastructure that it was actually designed for.
There are already cargo bikes that are way bigger and heavier than a normal bike.
This particularly seems not too dissimilar to the bike food carts you already see in some places.