Personal Public Transport

One advantage of driving yourself around in your own vehicle is that you can come and go as you please but it's a bit of a drag on the planet and your pocket. One advantage of public transport is that you utilize shared resources and they often run on renewable energy sources but you need to wait for the next train or bus or whatever.

Now, imagine you take these two advantages while ditching the disadvantages and put them into the one solution. The solution, developed by Jay Andress and Andy Webster, comes the "Liberator Car" from MonoMobile. It's a small electric car that is handy for short distances but, using the wheels attached to the roof, connects to a public monorail system for longer distances. The rail will also recharge the car's batteries for a fresh start when you "land" after whisking you away at up to 200 mph (320 kph).

Autoblog Green tells me these two gents are looking for $10 million in funding for a 1 mile test section of monorail. "They expect it would cost upwards of $500 billion to add a MonoMobile infrastructure to the existing interstate highway system but say the increase in transportation efficiency and productivity would save almost an equal amount of money each year."