If a golf cart and an electric scooter had a baby—and then that baby got a paint job in Willy Wonka’s candy factory—you might have something that approximates the Scoot Quad, Nissan’s experimental mobility vehicle currently tooling around San Francisco streets at 25 mph. The vehicle is part of a partnership between ride-sharing startup Scoot and Nissan’s Future Lab.
The Future Lab team studies what transportation might look like beyond the traditional product-plan timeline of five to 10 years. We talked with Rachel Nguyen, the social scientist and 17-year automotive industry veteran who leads Future Lab, about what’s ahead in the not-so-near term.
