Microcars as one ways to reduce the harmful impact of transportation problems on a modern city

Abstract

The need to substantiate the advantages of the three-wheeled microcar as a new alternative type of urban individual vehicle is due to its unusual, special consumer and operational properties, which are aimed at simultaneously solving many transport problems of the modern city.

Analysis of existing microcars shows that despite the disadvantages, each of them has the main advantages - small size, lower energy consumption for transporting one person, less harmful emissions, high maneuverability. Today we can note a real boom among the world's most famous automakers in an attempt to create their own micro-vehicle as soon as possible. As for criticism, it is usually aimed at low informativeness of the microcar, ie it is harder to notice on the road; the level of passive safety is also much lower than that of a conventional car. In addition, this new mode of transport sometimes creates obstacles to the movement of traffic, especially when its maximum speed does not exceed 45-50 km / h. It is also possible to observe confusion of bodies controlling traffic safety, concerning alleged absence of the legislative norms concerning the charter of microcars, that to the permission of their operation. Of course, this does not apply to all countries, in the US and England the term "microcars" is legal, and there are other examples. In England, the classification also includes a term related to micro-vehicles - "bubble" (meaning "bubble"). This is how urban single-seater microcars, which look like glass bubbles, were once called [2,14]. In addition, the analysis shows that one way or another, the above shortcomings in some designs are quite successfully resolved. It follows that having gathered, in one concept car the maximum of positive qualities, it is possible to create the microcar capable to become the real competitor to today's traditional car which has flooded the modern city