At this year’s Los Angles Auto Show, the fourth annual Design Los Angeles conference for automotive designers has been included. The Design Challenge is the part of the conference which this year tries to design a vehicle that will be on the streets a half century from now.
The entry from Honda designers Ben Davidson, Khrystyne Zurian, Shae Shatz foresees a robotic modular vehicle comprising four pods. These pods when coupled together can travel at higher speeds and use a car pool lane and once it approaches the destination, they can be separated into smaller single seater vehicles.
The solar-hybrid powered Honda 14 is an energy efficient, fully robotic commuting solution. A suburban community re-population movement in the 2050’s has increased consumer demand for a truly flexible commuter vehicle.
The solar-hybrid Honda 14 solves the carpooling dilemma because it allows carpoolers to take advantage of HOV lanes, share commuting costs and once near the passengers’ final destinations, robotically transforms from one to four separate and unique modes of transportation.
Through a combination of gyros, artificial intelligence and molecular engineering, each individual vehicle instinctively reconfigures as a fully functional vehicle. When traveling as one, the division points are undetectable. The latest advancements in molecular engineering allow the body panels to divide and reshape to form each individual vehicle. [Courtesy: LA Autoshow via Autobloggreen]
