I love my car, her name is Sophie and she’s a VW station wagon. But even Sophie can’t tame my road rage, or more accurately, road irritation. When it comes to driving, I find everything—from scraping the windshield to poky drivers to cracked bumpers—irritating. Beyond moving to a more pedestrian-friendly city, I fear there is little to calm my angst.

If anything could soothe my commute-induced bad mood, it would be an adorable bubble car like the Honda Puyo (pictured below.) It’s infectiously cute, so much so that it’d be hard to be in it’s presence and feel a funk. Other equally cute cars are featured on OObject, a website dedicated to all things gadgety, including an entire collection devoted to bubble cars.

(Source: Jalopnik.)

Reuters has an article on foldable cars, a design intended to alleviate parking woes. It’s a pretty cool concept and if it’s any more affordable than the pricey VW Mini Clubman (one of my favorites from this year’s Detroit Auto Show, despite it’s name and price), it might just be enough to shift my outlook on the daily commute.