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November 14, 2007
The Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow evokes the 1930s.
FIFTY years ago, tail fins were at their most extreme: cars seemed to want to be rockets. But 50 years from now, cars will want to be robots, at least according to the design challenge at the Los Angeles auto show this year, according to the New York Times.
“Robocar 2057” is the theme of the fourth edition of an event created by Chuck Pelly, the noted designer and teacher, who said the theme was inspired by the recent film “Transformers.”
So this year, automotive design studios in the Los Angeles area competed to produce designs showing how artificial intelligence might improve the automobile and integrate it more closely with human lives.
As usual in this competition, practical constraints like marketability, fuel economy, safety and even high school physics are put aside in the interest of exercising designers’ imaginations. These cars exist only on paper and in digital form.
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