An exchange station has openings for drones, a passenger check-in/check-out bay for processing passengers, a drone connect/release bay, having apparatus adapted to manage passenger pods mounted on smart chassis, and a computerized control system in wireless communication with control circuitry in the drones and smart chassis, guiding smart chassis with mounted passenger pods and drones, to make the exchange of pods from the smart chassis to drones. A passenger entering the passenger check-in bay is loaded into a pod mounted on a smart chassis, the pod with passenger is transported to the drone-connect/release bay, and the pod is there joined to a bare drone and disconnected from the smart chassis, the drone leaving with the passenger pod to a destination, and the smart chassis traveling away from the drone connect-release bay.

A vehicle seat with a seat bottom and backrest is configured for movement between a forward-facing position and an inwardly-rotated position in a reconfigurable vehicle passenger cabin. The movement includes rotation about a vertical axis located along an inboard side of the seat and a rear side of the seat bottom. The vertical axis can be located within an inboard quarter of the seat, rearward of an occupant seating surface of the seat bottom, forward or rearward of a rear side of a bottom end of the backrest, and various combinations of these locations. In addition to providing a seat occupant with additional freedom of movement within the passenger cabin, the inwardly-rotated position of the seat can also provide a safer condition for the seat occupant with respect to structural portions of the vehicle body.

An AGV tool for entertainment and transportation includes a cabin, an AGV base, and a connection component connecting the cabin and the AGV base. The connection component includes a supporting component, a driving component, an upper installation component and a lower installation component. The driving component is fixedly connected to the supporting component. The supporting component includes two supporting arms and a supporting plate. The two supporting arms are arranged at two sides of the supporting plate. One end of each supporting arm is connected to one end of the supporting plate at a preset angle. The upper installation component is connected to another end of the supporting plate and configured to fixedly connect the cabin. The lower installation component is connected to the driving component and configured to fixedly connect to a supporting surface of the AGV base.

A transport system has a first set of substantially parallel rails supported above ground level by support structures, a trolley having wheels mounted to a frame with the wheels engaging the rails, at least one wheel powered to move the trolley along the set of rails, a portion of the frame depending between the rails to a level below the rails, and a downward-facing latching interface on the depending portion of the frame, and a pod enabled to carry a passenger or parcels, or both, engaged by an upward-facing latching interface to the downward-facing latching interface of the trolley, such that, as the trolley travels along the rail set, the pod is carried along below the rail set.

A transport system has a wheeled, steerable, self-powered, self-navigating carrier vehicle, having a substantially planar support frame, an on-board, rechargeable, battery-based power system, control circuitry, including GPS circuitry, on-board the carrier vehicle, adapted to drive and steer the carrier vehicle, and an upward-facing carrier interface adapted to the support frame, the carrier interface having first physical engagement elements, and a passenger pod adapted to carry both packages and persons, the passenger pod having a structural framework, a rechargeable, battery-based power system, and a downward-facing pod interface adapted to the structural framework, the carrier interface having second physical engagement elements. The passenger pod, placed upon the carrier vehicle, engages the downward-facing pod interface to the upward-facing carrier interface by the first and second physical engagement elements.

A stackable vehicle is provided and includes a deck, pairs of controllable support elements at each of a first pair of opposed minor surfaces of the deck and comprising a first leg affixed to the deck and transversely telescopic relative to a corresponding minor surface plane, a second leg coupled to a distal end of the first leg and telescopic in parallel with the corresponding minor surface plane and a pivotable and rotatable wheel disposed at a distal end of the second leg and pairs of controllable support elements at each of a second pair of opposed minor surfaces of the deck and comprising a first leg affixed to the deck, a second leg coupled to a distal end of the first leg and telescopic in parallel with a corresponding minor surface plane and a pivotable and rotatable wheel disposed at a distal end of the second leg.

A motor-vehicle frame includes a pair of longitudinal members; a plurality of cross members, which join the longitudinal members to one another; a resting surface, which is supported by the longitudinal members and cross members and defines the surface of the floor of the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle; a pair of front uprights; and a front-seat assembly. The frame includes a platform structure, arranged on which is the front-seat assembly, which affords a greater comfort within the passenger compartment and moreover strengthens the overall structure of the motor vehicle.

An electronic docking vehicle includes a vehicle body including a docking subject mechanism that docks with a first surrounding vehicle and a docking object mechanism with which a docking subject mechanism of second surrounding vehicle docks. A vehicle manipulating mechanism is provided in the vehicle body and includes a driving force generator providing a driving force to driving wheels. A steering manipulator controls a steering angle of the driving wheels. A braking manipulator generates a braking force in the driving wheels. A controller is configured to allow one vehicle to combine with the surrounding vehicle through the docking subject mechanism or the docking object mechanism.

A vehicle including a base frame having three or more wheels; a steering system for steering one or more of the wheels; a propulsion system for driving at least one of the wheels; a front pivot member and a back pivot member longitudinally spaced apart from one another on the base frame; a cabin having a front pivot point and a back pivot point, the cabin being pivotally mounted to the base frame between the front pivot member and the back pivot member, the front and back pivot points defining a longitudinal rotational axis of the cabin that is above a center of gravity of the cabin, the cabin being rotatable around the longitudinal rotational axis in one of a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction; and a seat assembly in the cabin for sitting one or more users, the seat assembly being located below the rotational axis of the cabin.

A motor vehicle for independent use by an individual in a wheelchair, comprising an open air vehicle body including a floor further comprising a front, a rear, and lateral sides, said floor sized and shaped to receive and retain a wheelchair; a motor; at least one front and at least one rear wheel supporting said vehicle body and floor, each of said front and rear wheels attached rotatably near an underside of a corner of the vehicle body; at least one actuator attaching said floor to said at least one rear wheel, wherein said floor can be lowered to a ground surface and raised to a level floor position; wherein a rear portion of said floor is structured to fold upward to form said rear side and fold downward to be in line with said floor; and a steering control assembly coupled to said at least one front wheel.