Ah yes, because the alternative to biking in place in a pod-car on your way to work is to bike in place in a gym. Not, say, to ride an actual bike to work and get your exercise in that way! (And have other humans alongside you to boot.)
the Citroen Autonomous Mobility Vision has a top speed of only 25 km/h.
Which is about 15.5 mph, for us backwards Americans. I think I’m faster than that on my cheap, shitty junker of a bicycle.
- drivers don't give a crap about cyclists
- every time it rains everything you wear gets mud all over it - no bike lanes in a lot of roads
- terrible public transit, either you sit next to people who smell like pee or the train comes every 30 mins or there are no bike racks or your bike is likely to get stolen if you leave it alone for 30 seconds
- if you need to pick something up on the way to or from work you basically need to wheel around your bike in the store because otherwise it's 100% getting stolen by some guys with an electric saw
- some American cities are very hilly, so any commute longer than 2-3 miles becomes very tiring