One Chinese engineer’s idea of the perfect car of the future hails back to a Ford prototype that never went into mass production, though it was popular enough to span a successful line of collectibles ...

In 1911, the concept for the gyrocar was suggested in a fictional story called “Two Boys in a Gyrocar.” Shortly thereafter, a prototype for a Gyrocar was commissioned by Russian Count Pyotr Shilovski ...

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The two-wheeled vehicle whizzing around a Beijing test track is a mashup of motorcycle, electric car and space capsule, wrapped around the brain of a smartphone. And engineer Zhu Lingyun believes it ...

A Chinese engineer has designed a two-wheeled car of the future based on a 1961 Ford model. Self balancing two-wheel cars, known as gyrocars, have been around for over 100 years, but have failed to ...

The 1961 Ford Gyron concept car. Photo by FORD MOTER CO It looks sort of like an enclosed motorcycle, but it's actually a car, a two-wheeled electric car. It is the dream of engineer Zhu Lingyun and ...