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Meet the Toyota Fun-Vii, a futuristic concept car that Toyota’s president described as “a smartphone on four-wheels.” Smartphone screens have certainly been growing, from 3.5-inches, to 4-inches, to 4.5-inches but holy crap, is this the logical conclusion?
Toyota’s concept of the future is a whimsical one, where people would get out of their cars and use the giant touch screen to do some internetting. Also, do you know how expensive body work already is when someone side-swipes your parked car? Now imagine adding the cost of a gigantic, curved, back-lit touchscreen. Kill me now. Maybe you could subsidise the cost by making the side of your car into a mobile billboard.
But you know what, screw reality. Ignoring all of the obvious impracticalities, the Fun-Vii is beautiful. I hate seeing concept cars that look just like the shit we have already. We need more sci-fi in our future, not because things like this are great ideas, but because they are creative, and they inspire a sense of awe and possibility. Don’t you want to live in a world were wild ideas like this are practical? I sure as hell do. [PhyOrg]
Image credit: AP/Koji Sasahara
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Least I hope no one would attempt to play Angry Birds on the panels of this car.
At this week’s Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda gave the driving world a first look at what some media companies are labeling a “smartphone on wheels”. The black, wedge-shaped concept vehicle, named the Toyota Fun-Vii, will further cement the connection between vehicle and cellphone, according to Automotive News. Find more information here: http://www.cardealexpert.com/news-information/auto-news/toyota-fun-vii-concept/.
I remember seeing so many concept cars over the years – one of them had this dashboard that hid everything (like some sort of giant rubber)…and when the car started, all the bits and bobs popped out
It was an amazing thing to see
They always show us these amazing concept cars – but then nothing like them ever comes out…so they have a dept. that designs & builds amazing cars, costing mega money, never release them…yet we pay for it by buying the cars they do make?