Animating a Rickshaw/Pedicab: How? How Difficult?

Someone I know is keen on having a pedicab/rickshaw built within SL -- I'm trying to think up ideas how it might be done, IF it can be done. What I'm talking about is something like this: http://www.manhattanrickshaw.com/insideimages/pedicab.jpg .

Would it be possible to have a "robot" driver programmed to take you around if you tell the driver directions?

Failing that, would it be possible to script simple animation of a robot driver pedaling a pedicab, while you point the direction, much as you do in a go-kart? (Or would that be too many prims?)

How difficult a proposition would this be? I am a designer, have some experience with scripting languages, but don't know LSL or how to build objects (yet).

Forgive my ignorance -- I'm a SL newbie. Just trying to get a sense of whether this is possible.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Your first idea of telling a vehicle to take you to a certain area would be a little hard to do. Things like that are usually done with a non-physical type vehicle which means it just kind of floats about and I imagine that's not what you want in a pedicab.

Your second idea with a cab that you control sounds like it would behave like a regular car which just happens to have an animated robot in front. I'd suggest you get some freebie cars and take them apart to figure how they work.

Here's the reference for using lsl:
http://www.lslwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

You should be able to use a vehicle system to do want you want. you would not be using a control event system but a combination of timers and listen events. Remember you are limited 32 prims total. this includes the AV riding it. So if you have 3 people on the vehicle, you are limited to 29 prims. There should be a vehicle called "Kart 1.0" in your Library>Object folder. That one you can edit and take apart.