Car Idea News Today

Martha: all right. we are back. hello, everybody. say good-bye to the parallel park. mit unveiling the protoe type of a future electric car. check this out of the bill hemmer and i were checking during break. this would be great vehicle around downtown manhattan except if you get in collision. the wheels rotate. you spin them around to turn into tight spot. this is the part i dont understand, it folds to get them into one space. teach me about a folding car idea. there are engines in the baby. o...

This would be a street car maintenance facility literally 50 feet from union station. >> reporter: thats where it would be? >> thats exactly where this would be. >> reporter: a hybrid street car, drawing power from cars in some spots but running on batteries in others. >> i think you got to balance the need to keep a wide open vista with the need for transportation options and a clean environment. >> reporter: but even that may require overturning more than 100 years of law, a ban on overhead wi...