Flex - Urban Personal Car Replacement

The concept of Flex was based on the alarming statistics that 60% of car journeys conducted in the UK only have one occupant and that the average car spends 95% of its existence parked.

Flex proposes a radical approach to the issue of urban mobility. It envisions a future where taxis, buses and crucially private cars are no longer allowed in our towns and cities. The infrastructure that these traditional transportation systems require would instead be devoted to the Flex system, an intelligent, connected network of autonomous electric vehicles that are shorter and narrower than a Fiat 500 and designed to accommodate two occupants in comfort.

They would operate as a collective force, appearing in numbers when demand is high and disappearing when demand drops. They would charge at night in beautiful glass towers on land liberated by bus shelters, they would never mindlessly contribute to congestion when it would be quicker to walk and they would never be seen parked stationary by the side of the road.