If you want to build new vehicles, you must first be a vehicle.
On a cold winter afternoon the Orgsmobile Malmö Mechanics and some brave volunteers constructed and test-drove a simple Human Powered Vehicle (HPV), the weight of which roughly equals that of a small Mini. Besides dealing with common traffic interaction several demanding tests were executed, for example maximum speed, u-turns, and parallel parking.
Although the vehicle was agile and quick the ride was a bit uncomfortable, both for the driver and the vehicle (which had some structural problems and started to disintegrate along the way). While the driver liked that the vehicle had a will of its own, the left fender complained about the lack of communication between the driver and the vehicle parts.
The test drive ended in an humiliating ambush of snowball-throwing local youngsters, expressing a mix of shy curiosity and confused anger, but also leaving several questions for the future Orgsmobile research: How can we create a more collaborative driving situation? Should we perhaps get rid of the driver/vehicle dichotomy altogether? Why weren't OM-HPV1 accepted as a real "traffic object"?