Next-Level Giant Bicycle Aims to Fix Traffic Issues, Creates Twice as More

Yes, we're talking about the traffic in our beloved cities and how it forces so many of our fellow human beings to waste precious time of their lives locked up inside their vehicles, waiting for the lights to turn green so they can crawl for ten more feet.

Coming up with a solution to this problem has to be tough, otherwise the bright minds on this planet would have found one by now. But they haven't - even though, to be fair, Elon Musk did start working on his recently.

And so did Dahir Insaat. Who? Well, they can't all make successful electric vehicles that get 400,000 reservations before launch and master the art of Twitter communication, can they? You may not have heard of Dahir Insaat, but we promise you won't forget this name after you see the video below.

No, it's not that great, but it is pretty ridiculous. The vehicle it features is based on the concept of the gyroscope and its ability to keep an object in balance even if the ground patch wouldn't suggest it should be able to stand up straight. The "technology" is rather old, but apart from some gyroscopic bicycle wheels that keep the two-wheeled vehicle erect, it hasn't been used too much.

Dahir Insaat believes it holds the key to our traffic-free future. He has come up with a vehicle that looks like an overweight butterfish that uses a pair of extendable stilts to lift itself off the ground and navigate through traffic on strips of reinforced asphalt.

Where do we begin? For one thing, having huge vehicles hanging over you is never a good idea. Second, concentrating all that weight on just two wheels on a scorching summer day is going to change the "knife through hot butter" idiom to "gyroscopic vehicle through hot asphalt."

And then there are the street lights, the overpasses, the streetcar power wires, and countless other things that they could run into. And what about when people actually want to get off? What if there is no room to lower the thing to ground level? Special stations? That's the last thing a crowded city needs. As for the rest of the drivers, best of luck spotting  those thin legs in your mirrors.

But let's assume these things work, and they work so well that everybody starts riding in them. Imagine how silly they would look the day when nobody used their cars anymore. They'd be like a bunch of giraffes wondering why they have such long necks when all vegetation is dwarf-sized.

But the best bit has to be that fire rescue vehicle. That whole section of the clip is really tense. It looks like Dahir Insaat is looking for financial backing for these projects. Well, they might not be very realistic, but at least the clips themselves are one hundred times better than this attempt from a Hungarian startup that allegedly wants to build an electric truck.