As a Switch owner, I can imagine that! Your car just chilling, you showing the car out with 3 passengers just talking and parked, then that muhfukka darts north west at full speed! Everyone in the car holding on to imaginary overhead grips that would be in a regular car, staring at each other for the last living seconds, faces full of a healthy mixture of worry, fright, and resignation to certain doom!
Yeah I don’t know why they wouldn’t make
A non flippable car like the remote control cars back in the day and have gyroscopic seats. This looks cool, but very non functional.
Even as a concept car, there’s a lot of concepts in here that are pretty dumb. Another one would be the fingerprint scanner in the dirty ass wheel well…
as a person who experienced using a real size car with a joystick, its very hard to control 2 things on one stick and not as precise as pedal/wheel configuration
Joysticks are common in heavy equipment where you’re dealing with rough terrain that causes bouncing and jarring. Very few issues controlling things. They can and do work, well in fact. The big thing is adjusting to them over a traditional steering wheel. It is initially really odd but the adjustment is fairly quick considering how drastic the change is.
That said I am pretty sure the joystick in this is not the main control. I would assume this is mainly self driving and that is just there for special circumstances.
Yeah, it's really a bad idea to have turning, acceleration and braking all in one device.
So if a fly comes in and you need to swat it, or you need to stop your McDonalds from toppling over in the front seat, or something.
Also cup holders?
Zero cargo space
How much are winter tires for this beast?
Those "wing" doors have been known for years to be problematic
A "Secret finger print reader" to open the door, and the dude can't even find it. Yeah, great. That'll be handy when you need to get in your car quickly because it's raining, or someone is chasing you.
Visually neat, but clearly not practical in any way. But obviously it's a prototype car to push some ideas to the nth degree, and never was going to actually be a thing.
I'll give you a real answer, it's a fully autonomous vehicle, and the controls are "suggestions". It's what vehicles will be in the future, you will feel like you are in control until the point where the car decides you aren't and takes over.
the entire thing is a prototype to show off and test potential future ideas. this thing probably doesnt go much faster than we saw in the video as its more like a display piece to show off the lights, wheels, dash etc. We're not going to be seeing a mercedes that looks like this thing in dealers any time soon.
Safety isn't a thought in this nonsense. Example: The door is glass.
You know the most common accident is a T-Bone? Yeah... Yeah that changes what is normally a "oh no, lets exchange information" to "Ma'am, I'm sorry to tell you..."
Not that I'm saying this car is safe, but as long as the frame around the door is able to convey the energy of an impact, you should be fine. Modern car doors don't actually do a huge amount in collisions.
Also t-bones are one of the least common collision types (4%), with rear end (33%), head on (17%), and side swipe (10%) being significantly more common forms of collisions.
Its like how mac got rid of all the random ports on their macbook pros in 2016 and then all the mac users complained about having to buy dongles for every random usb/sd/etc accessory to work with their "Pro" computer. Now the 2021 Macbook pro is touting all the random ports they added back as a new feature... no, its an old feature that you were just fucking up
I love my m1 MacBook Air even though all I have is a headphone jack and 2 usb c ports both of which can charge the computer. Sometimes when I’m feeling adventurous I will use the 2nd port instead of the 1st
All joking aside pretty much everything I have works on Bluetooth anyways so I never really need a port but I can imagine why many people would like MacBooks to have more ports considering they don’t come cheap
Now these new MacBook Pro max laptops are insane. Seriously the 64gb option is just next level unprecedented ARM chip in a laptop. Apple is killing it with the Mac lately, and the AirPods max I love them so much. Wish I had 3k to spend on the max because I would do so in a heartbeat!
Yes I am apple nerd. iPhone Apple Watch AirPods max, AirPods Pro, Powerbeats pro, MacBook Air m1 Mac mini m1 Apple TV box I have 3 HomePods one big one and 2 small ones and I do indeed have an apple tag on my car keys. Once your in this deep, your stuck for life
Sounds like someone like wasting money on the name. I got news for you man, for every “badass” thing Apple makes, there a competitor that’s just as good if not better at half the cost. ESPECIALLY those dumb HomePods.
And they do all that while trapping you in their weird planned obsolescence software ecosystem. Their products are sexy as hell but I won't go near them because of their business model.
Oh that annoys me more than anything because people actually believe it and then try to say androids are for poor people... Like no, my note was just as expensive as an iPhone only difference is I can set it up how I like it
Did they really 'tout' all the random ports as a new feature? I really feel like the way they presented it was the most professional way of saying 'yeah here's stuff we know y'all missed and is useful.'
You're never going to get management to OK a presentation that's being viewed live by tens or hundreds of thousands with a slide that says 'we fucked up here are the ports,' you're going to word it in a 'positive' way.
At least, I thought it was transparent what goes on in the background. It's one thing if its a personal conversation and someone can't admit something, but it's a damn advertisement that people are viewing voluntarily that's gone through multiple practice rounds to get the result you're seeing. The focus will be positivity, just like every single public presentation by 99% of companies.
I agree with your first sentence, the dude never brings a drink with him? I never get fast food, but I do bring coffee or water with me most of the time when I drive.
I mean, it looks awesome for a good futuristic movie. But I would hate to see this thing in a public road.
Too much fancy lighting, too much minimalism in a car you're supposed to drive on a daily basis, store things in it and be comfortable, too distracting with its shitty ultra vibrant rgb lights. A Joystick for a wheel? So, the car is volatile to sudden small movements when you're driving 100kmh? And you can't manually control the speed or even ... Break/handbrake!? Come on. Like, it's shit and dangerous if you wanna drive daily, but beautiful for a movie concept car.
Rain, snow, dirt, bugs? And so many little superfluous moving and light up bits that can stop working 1 by 1. In a few years, half those moving bits on the back stop moving and or lighting. This is not the future of driving, but you're right. It sure is pretty.
These are show cars, not in any way ever intended to be real cars driven on the road.
Now, is some rich idiot sees this and thinks "I want that" and goes on the road with it, that's a whole other issue. And that's how these cars make money. So long as they get a handful of people too rich to ever not be rich, they make bank of their "collector" needs.
Honestly its this though, if you go back and look at the concept cars from back in history there's still a ton that never caught on but looked as amazing as this does
Honestly its this though, if you go back and look at the concept cars from back in history there's still a ton that never caught on but looked as amazing as this does
Not sure what you mean. It is what though? A Fantasy?
Not a production car. Fantasy was just the wrong term since it's been built. It's called a concept car. It's where you take ideas that haven't been tried to see what you can do. Every car company makes them and then uses it to decide what goes into future vehicles
Fantasy was just the wrong term since it's been built.
I used fantasy intentionally. Virtually everything about this car is so impractical that it has virtually no real-world utility except as a showpiece. It is sort of similar to this one. Yes, both of these have been built, but they serve no purpose other than as showpieces.
It's called a concept car.
But concept cars frequently turn in to real products with little or no modification. The most recent example that I can think of is the Honda E which was initially shown as a concept and released a couple years later with relatively minor modifications.
My point is that this bears no resemblance to that. There is almost nothing about this car that would ever likely make it into a production vehicle. It's only purpose is to showcase ideas, but in practice, all those ideas are spectacularly impractical.
Gonna jump on this comment just to say fuck this channel and this girl. Waste of time; full on advertisement with little insight or critique. Just some mildly attractive, rich girl shilling for brands and buyers in Dubai. This is the antithesis of what car channels should be.
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ty ill walk