Wired says the Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride

We’re jealous of the folks who get to drive the Zerotracer. It’s a sporty two-seat enclosed motorcycle that weighs less than 1,400 lbs, can do 0-100 km/hr (62 mph) in less than 4.5 seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph.

The first thing that comes to mind, if I remember correctly, is that this looks to be a very close copy of a vehicle in the 1991 movie “Until the End of the World” by Wim Wenders. Rent the movie and see how the landing wheels work; to be fair the concept was developed by a pilot and Wenders seemed to just throw it as a credibility prop.

The movie also had some amusing concepts of Internet search engines and computer navigation in cars. The search engine, for example, had a big Russian bear mascot that would say “I’m searching, I’m searching” while it generated results.

My first work with GPS navigation was in 1994, about the same time I saw the movie. It seemed back then uncanny how accurate Wenders was in his vision. The Wired article suggests to me it might be time to see it again and see what else was predicted or may still come true.