A man sits in a horse drawn carriage outside of Central Park on April 15, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Horse Drawn Carriage (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There’s a new push under way to eliminate the horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.

Animal rights groups are behind the new prototype horseless carriage being work on by a Brooklyn-born exotic car designer. The carriage would be modeled after the electric cars from the early 1900s, 1010 WINS’ Glenn Schuck reported.

“I’m not impressed, I like the horse. It’s more romantic and it’s more adventuresome. And the car thing, I wouldn’t do it at all,” a Canadian tourist in Central Park told Schuck.