Ramp Cars

Transportation can be profoundly altered by making every road worthy vehicle a driveable surface. Forget about the aethetics of the ramp shape. If cars could simply drive over eachother like those glorious wedge shaped battle robots of the fighting robot fad, innumerous transportation problems related to congestion and collisions would be permanently solved. These wedges would be an onramp and an offramp shaped wedge.

Of course minor collisions between vehicles would be a normal occurance when one mounts the other, but design considerations would minimize the effects. Vehicle elevation would vary based on speed of travel. A stopped wedge would be almost flat on the ground, and in fact rubber stoppers on the bottom of vehicles would become an additional braking mechanism. A faster moving wedge would easily travel over another slower wedge, and slowing and speeding up would be the main mechanism for maintaing traffic flow over and under vehicles.

In the year 3013 overpopulation and wedge shaped vehicles will form streams of traffic several vehicles wide and many vehicles deep. Navigating through this streaming, fluid mass of vehicles would still be regulated by wedge elevation adjusted by speed. With cars travelling above and below eachother the wedges are displaced at varying angles as cars are navigated between layers, ascending and decending these motile ramps.