Snaps

Snaps are small recreational vehicles that link together digitally and physically. Using Snap!t, the social networking interface, users are able to facilitate carpooling. These lightweight Snaps cling to existing transportation and infrastructure, allowing vacationers to participate in road trips without stressful navigating and excessive fuel consumption.

The combination of the Snap!t social networking software and the Snaps’ physical ability to cling to trains, trucks, and cars enables a smooth transition from our current transportation methods to those of the future. The Snap!t software is a way to communicate with others participating in the Snap!t network. This includes other Snap units, truckers and train systems. With the software you can talk to neighboring Snap users, make friends, even invite them over for dinner on the road, if you’d like. Snap!t provides people with a way to have complete control over the vacation routes they take, while the Snap unit lets you hitchhike your way through existing transportation systems while you sit back and enjoy the view. Snaps are a way of blending independence and public transportation all while stressing the importance of community and cooperation in a sustainable society.

This diagram shows the major and minor transportation routes that currently exist across the United States. Snap would take advantage of these existing systems, allowing people to connect to each other and places across the country without the headache of navigating.

Snap !t would allow Snap users to talk to each other, as well as plan their road trips. This social networking interface would help vacationers weight the options of fuel efficiency, sights, and schedule to plan the best route from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.

This diagram shows the ways Snaps would be attached to trucks. As incentive, a percentage of the membership fee Snap !t users pay, would go toward the shipping companies that join, giving themselves advertising as a supporter of sustainable transportation solutions. This would work similarly with trains

All four sides of each unit can connect to other Snaps. Retractable wheels allow Snap connections on top of each other. Each unit is equipped with a toilet, sink, shower, stove, and mini-fridge. The dining area seats four and converts into sleeping space for two.