Making its debut at this month’s Japan Mobility Present, the Suzuki MOQBA is a bit electrical scooter with 4 wheels mounted on articulating legs. It’s the primary motorbike designed with the specific objective of strolling up stairs. For now the design is within the conceptual phases, however this might revolutionize scootering in cities. Not solely is there an added degree of stability for climbing over obstacles, however you’re a lot much less more likely to eat shit if you happen to hit a pothole you didn’t see.

This Modular Quad Primarily based Structure is designed “for many who face boundaries in transportation equivalent to steps, even in a area with developed public transportation.” That in all probability means that is largely geared toward a Japanese viewers, however I might see getting use out of this factor even right here in a scooter-friendly step-heavy American metropolis like San Francisco.

Suzuki is planning to indicate off a full spate of various chassis which will be carried by the modular leg platform. Whereas the little e-scooter is the best of those for every-day use by an able-bodied individual like myself, this technique will be extraordinarily helpful as a stair-climbing wheelchair or medical stretcher as properly. Suzuki additionally imagines the MOQBA can be utilized to hold heavy issues up and down stairs, like groceries, packages, and rubbish bins.

By combining the bottom chassis with attachments, physique variation will be modified in three modes: Chair mode, Standing mode, and Stretcher mode. Via these modes, it contributes to the native society by not solely offering the liberty of transportation, but additionally as a mobility that transports individuals and objects in locations the place automobiles can hardly undergo in case of conditions equivalent to emergency.

When you’ve been in search of a quadrupedal motorcycle, be sure to shout at Suzuki that you simply’ll gladly throw cash at considered one of these machines if they create them to manufacturing. It received’t truly get them to supply the rattling factor, however perhaps it’ll be cathartic for us to yell anyway.