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Posted by Aart van Bezooyen | 10 Jan 2006
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Considered Nissan's in car gaming fancy? (see earlier post) Then check out the GMC PAD, winner of the 2006 Design Los Angeles Design Challenge.
"The concept of the GMC PAD is that of an urban loft with mobility. Featuring a diesel-electric hybrid system for propulsion, the engine also serves as a generator for the onboard power grid. The media rich environment is unlike any other, and comes with an endless variety of entertainment, information and security options."
A "LAV," Living Activity Vehicle" according to the judges.
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Comments
Why are there so few windows?
It seems like a compelling concept, but at the same time, I wonder whether designers have some obligation to begin thinking about ways to make our relationships with cars create less of a carbon burden on the environment. Converting "hangout space" into a moving, gas-drinking hulk hardly seems like a heads-up move when the price of oil is still above $2.
I wonder what the entries might look like if GM asked "How can we continue to make money with cars (or at least start doing it) even if these cars will be allowed only 5 gallons of gas per week. Or 2. Whatever. I think the responses could be just as compelling as this, and infinitely more helpful.
My brother used to collect Judge Dredd comics back when we were kids in the 80's. This concept is uncannily similar to the one I read there - in Dredd's distopian post-apocalyptic world, sky high property prices force people into perpetually moving mobile homes - forever circling the city on autopilot. Next stop - Government issued Foodstuff A and B. That's goverment sanctioned food with unidentified ingredients. Monsanto museli anyone?