The New Urban Car

The New Urban Caran imaginatively utile alternative to today's space-gobbling, pollution-belching personal vehiclesDuring the next 12 months, Americans will drive automobiles 900 billion miles. They will suck up a sea of gasoline--well, 75 billion gallons (250,000 filling-station pumps squirting into Main Street!)--they will burn, use up for good, an unimaginable number of tons of oxygen and spread over the land, say, 200,000 tons of pollutants, gases, chemicals and solids (870 tons of solids al...