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I love this. It's really practical for a city. Though I'm wondering about the sail idea now on more rural roads. Roads turn this way and that, and the wind shifts. You'd need someone sitting in the thing orienting the sail. I wonder if you made it a little larger with a largish sail and you had a driver on roller blades and a sailor sitting in it catching the wind how fast could you get it going? Depends on the wind, I guess, but a boat probably has more friction in the water and sailboats go pretty fast.
Ooh, maybe you could add an outrigger, a pole that slides left and right with a wheel on either side, to keep it from tipping.
In the city, with wind funneling between tall buildings, the wind can be extremely variable and gusty. I doubt the practicality of that a lot of the time. It certainly caught my attention though.