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hey this is Josh from the verge and we are at CES 2014 in Las Vegas you know one of the great things about CES is that all sorts of companies call us and they want us to check out the stuff that they're working on and we got a call from Toyota to come out to a remote location in the desert and drive a new type of vehicle the company has been talking about and is excited about and that vehicle is this it's called the I road it's a double passenger electric vehicle that leans when you turn and is designed for congested cities it's basically like a hybrid of a motorcycle and a car and they're going to let me drive it which is awesome okay oh yeah oh this is the car of the future right here oh boy this is terrifying it turns very wide and it's surprising that it's not tip it over the car feels incredibly light it does not feel like a motorcycle at all in the sense that you're definitely inside of a vehicle you're seated as you would be in a car the handling is extremely sensitive I'd go so far as to say touchy though this is a prototype as far as comfort goes for being a really tall guy in a really small car this is pretty comfortable it's definitely not the kind of thing you could take on a very long drive you would not want to get on this thing on a highway and you probably wouldn't want to spend several hours in this car but for a daily commute if you're going from work to the office and it's only a few miles this seems like an incredible alternative to a motorcycle it really responds quickly to your moves turning is a little bit terrifying in it it actually feels at times like it's going to tip over but Toyota claims this thing is essentially untypical even as you round very tight turns it leans heavily but it does not actually tip over which is great for me because I'm inside the car and tipping over seems like a really bad thing to do when you're inside a car I went into this a little bit skeptical and I am pleasantly surprised this is awesome I want to take one of these home right now in fact if I could drive this off a lot and get it onto a flatbed and take it to New York I'd do it in a heartbeat although I have to say I am getting a little bit nauseous doing this dirt I think I found my next car and that car is not really a car at all it's a weird car motorcycle hybrid called the I road that you can't buy in America and will probably never be able to buy in America because Americans are frankly too big to fit inside the I rode at the Toyota I rode I'll see you in the future sucker