The ArtCenter College of Design graduate Jaebum “JB” Choi was about to start an internship at Nissan Design America (NDA) in La Jolla, California, just when the COVID-19 restrictions came into effect. Working from home, he imagined a Nissan GT-R of 2050, the time when autonomous vehicles would’ve taken over the entire planet.
Although the GT-R (X) 2050 we’re seeing here doesn’t look anything like the GT-R models we’ve seen so far, Nissan has built a 1:1 scale model anyway. For those who’ve trouble understanding this concept, think of it as a “wearable car” or an exoskeleton, where the driver rests horizontally in a prone position with limbs extended in an X-shape.
As you might have guessed, the entire top section of this wearable car opens up to let the driver in. Right, so how do you drive this thing? Well, Choi imagines a brain-to-computer interface. He also imagines a “high-power electric performance”. Apparently, those wheels enable the vehicle to turn 360-degrees.
“Exoskeletons today make people stronger by wearing mechanical structures. I tried to fit the size of a person’s body as much as I could, as if I were wearing a car,” explains the Seoul-born Choi. “I wanted to create a new form of machine that is not a vehicle to ride, it is the space where machine and the human become one.”
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