Autonomous Cars Are On Their Way But Why Are The Designs So Daft?
Friday, 16. February 2018
I’ve just been looking at the latest design proposed for the Nissan autonomous car. I’m not picking on Nissan because every time I open a motoring magazine I see the latest designs being proposed, by another manufacturer, for their autonomous car and frankly they all look very similar.
Have you seen them? They look ugly and ridiculous on the outside and even more dopey on the inside. Why? They are turning into functional, minimalist pods. Just because the cars will eventually drive themselves doesn’t mean that they have to look boring and ugly. The good news is that we are many years away from the fully autonomous cars but in the meantime we will have electric cars.
They have to be driven so they will have to have instruments and means to drive them so let’s not move the designs too far away from the cars we have at the moment for Hybrids, petrol and diesel engine cars. Retain some style and good looks rather than move into something that is without flair and simply as functional as an electric plug. By Graham Hill
