Future Cars - Automatrix Online

" This is Future Car."

" The environment is becoming increasingly embedded with information about the history of the place that you're travelling through. Who thinks that it's a cool place? Who thinks that it's a happy place?"

" Won't it be great for those people when their car can talk back to them? You can imagine the municipal grid that's constantly rerecording the city as it changes. So when a pothole appears and a wheel that's intelligent runs over it, it can communicate to the car behind it. There is a pothole, avoid it. It could send that signal to the municipal grid, update all of the maps so that everyone know there is a pothole their. At some point, they can get repaired."

" The automatrix will enable your car to talk to other cars, think chat rooms in motion. Your car will become a forum for social networking."

" By communicating with other car, now we can communicate with people on the road who may share similar interest to our."

" Your car becomes a matchmaker. Based on your personal profile, it locates drivers who are potential business and social contacts."

" And can establish a real thing conversation while you're driving."

" There's a lot of interest in the internet community about sharing music between cars when you're stuck in traffic. So, why listen to radio station when you can, you know, browse around the music with the people and the cars around you are listening too."

" The young designers of today, like Ryan Joyce of the GM Intern Design Program are completely at home imagining cars as entertainment and social centers."

" My Cocoon presents seating and driving in a new life. The actual dynamics of steering and navigating the car are going to become secondary to entertainment and communication. We have the opportunity to make the car into an extension of a movie theater.-And that's what the Cocoon has become, a comfortable place, isolated from the world passing around you."

" We were delving into LCD windows. So, when you are driving through Manhattan during rush hour, why not be in an island scene in Tahiti. "

" Though he's envisioned this, it's not necessarily his idea of fun."

" I enjoy driving way too much to ever want to completely give up the freedom and the passion."

" It's fun to drive our cars. So we're not talking about taking control away from you, if you don't want it to be taken away. We're talking about providing you with and assist, and computers are going to be underlying all of that."

" Think of the automatrix as optional, beyond the considerations of safety and congestion. The automatrix can be customized to whatever extent we choose, and that is because our cars play a different role in every ones lives, and will continue to do so in the future."