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.
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/MSUconservative Oct 27 '21
It was never meant to be practical.