alt Hacker NewsLooking at the photos and trying to understand how a person would comfortably drive it, I figured I must be missing something.
So I looked up photos with a person inside and no, it really is that bad [0]. Pure form over function.
Uncomfortable, yes. That's bad enough. But you hands are far back under your center of gravity. Any crash over a few km/hr is going to result in a faceplant because there's no way you'll bring your hands forward fast enough. Top speed of 24km/hr is enough to cause serious... death by head trauma.
[0] https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/styles/g...
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C5, named after the vertebra most likely to snap in a low speed collision with a moderate caused pothole.
> how a person would comfortably drive it
Just like a kayak, but without the rowing.
It's a recumbent trike, this sort of design seems to still exist today, so presumably it works somehow.
https://www.rad-innovations.com/blog-our-news/about-recumben...