I love it when I get driven to work, but I can't leave when I want to, I depend on someone else.

So, like trailers behind a semi, why not connect several cars to a powerful drive vehicle that can tow several cars behind it. Like a 'road train'.

No flatbed or lifting of the cars. When you get to your destination, disconnect from the connecting vehicle and drive away.

You could have a connector that is universal and mounted to partipating cars. Drive up to the train, connect and relax.

Cars would need a connector in the back and the front.
-- danheathmoore, Oct 01 2007

So if I am third in a train of six cars and I detach at my destination, what happens the the three cars behind me?
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Oct 01 2007


How many times have we done this idea now?
-- DrCurry, Oct 01 2007


[+] just for the Dr.'s fuddy-duddiness
-- evilpenguin, Oct 01 2007


So if I'm the first in a train of six cars and we accelerate or travel up hill my car gets stretched? Similarly upon deceleration or down hill my car gets squashed?
-- Texticle, Oct 01 2007


This would be for long trips, commutes to work where everybody is going the same place.

Or instead of buses in city traffic. Take a bunch of kia's and link them together permanently. I really buses.

Going up and down hills, yes you would be squashed and stretched.
-- danheathmoore, Oct 01 2007


I never even bothered to offer this idea, even though it's on my list of personal WIBNIs.
-- elhigh, Oct 02 2007


Heck, it has been proposed in PopSci since at least the 1950s
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Oct 02 2007



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