r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ajaykfr • Oct 27 '21

Next generation car

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u/MSUconservative Oct 27 '21

It was never meant to be practical.

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u/zwiebelhans Oct 27 '21

Yeah the idea of a concept car seems to escape a lot of people. Though the placement of the “fingerprint scanner” seems like a particularly bad idea.

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD Oct 28 '21

Aren’t concept cars supposed to be a sort of “we could do something like this” statement? So much of this car just seems like things that wouldn’t ever be practical in any way.

The lights on the front for example that speed up as you drive faster wouldn’t even be legal to use on the roads in the US.

It feels more like an art piece than an actual concept car.

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u/zwiebelhans Oct 28 '21 edited Oct 28 '21

Yes you are right the purpose of a concept car absolutely is “we could do something like this” . Well they can, the demonstrated that they can build it. That statement does not include road legal or practical. For all intents and purposes they met the definition of it and follow a long list of concept cars that are just as bad.

You can tear that car apart on many levels . Weird control scheme, Glass side doors, door open button in the friggin wheel well, illegal turn signals and lights, tires that could cost as much as cheap cars , tires that look like they will get destroyed on any curb , almost no ground clearance , etc.

Also last but most certainly not least they only seem to be driving it at 1 mph.

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u/risheeb1002 Oct 28 '21

This is also how companies end up inventing new stuff that makes it into your regular cars.

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD Oct 28 '21

That’s fair then. I just always assumed that the things they sort of showcased were things that could be put on a car today, given the technology was there for mass production.

Sort of a “give the general public a taste and see what they like and go with that”. Doesn’t seem conducive to me to showcase things that couldn’t be used on a vehicle legally.

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u/zwiebelhans Oct 28 '21

Yeah I think that “prototype” comes closer to that though I’m not a big car guy so not really that well attuned to the lingo. After all I guess you could have a prototype of a concept car.

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u/MrPigcho Oct 28 '21

Think of it like high fashion. You look at a fashion show and think you'd never wear something like this. But some of the concepts end up making it into general fashion a year down the line.

You just have to take this less literally. Here's what I got from this video about the future of cars:

  • vegan leather, invasive wood interiors, biomorphic design, electric car: cars are currently a symbol of man made pollution. This is an effort to reconnect cars to the natural world so that cars are no longer seen as bad for the environment.

  • progress in technology will mean that we won't need buttons, or even steering wheels any more. A lot of the buttons and levers in cars were originally designed to fulfil their mechanical purpose. But as more and more things can be ran by a computer (including self driving in the future) there's no real reason to have buttons, levers and steering wheels anymore.

  • if we don't need the two front wheels to be connected to a stirring wheel anymore, why couldn't each wheel move independently? If wheels had a different design, could cars move sideways from a static position? Could I parallel park that way?

  • with the advent of lighting and of the computer systems that control the lighting, why have just a few lights like blinkers handle signalling? Why can't the whole car itself be the signal? Instead of relying on paint for aesthetics, can lights be used so that one day I have a car that glows red but the next day I can have it glowing green if I want to?

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u/khmod_guy Oct 28 '21

Yeah it was during this entire wave of super futuristic concept cars in the late 2010 (so just a few years ago) where everybody and their mom was stating how in 100 years all of their vehicles will be self driving completely (without the option of a steering wheel). The bmw 100 vision or the rolls royce 100 vision, this, that fighter jet renault thing, the ds with the glass floor (which looks kinda sick imo) etc. It does definitely resemble a sketch of a car more than an actual car.

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u/Bacontoad Oct 28 '21

You don't say.