Youth Mobile 2030: 6 Amazing Cars From The Future (PHOTOS, POLL)
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First Posted: 11- 5-09 04:25 PM   |   Updated: 11- 6-09 08:20 AM

What kind of cars with the Facebooking, Tweeting, gadget-craving youth of today want?

That's what these designers set out to envision for the YouthMobile 2030 Design Challenge, which asked Southern California design studios create the must-have cars for tomorrow's teens.

Take a look 21 years into the future in this slideshow of six incredible, must-see-to-believe concept cars that would redefine the road.

The winner of the YouthMobile 2030 Design Challenge will be announced on December 3 at the L.A. Auto Show.

Car Hero
 
With the Car Hero, General Motors Advanced Design wants to turn driving into gaming: "Once you enter your destination into the navi app on your smart phone, you can play against the vehicle to "win" complete control over the system and gain access to increasingly outrageous driving scenarios."
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What kind of cars with the Facebooking, Tweeting, gadget-craving youth of today want? That's what these designers set out to envision for the YouthMobile 2030 Design Challenge, which asked Southern C...
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- RevSpaminator I'm a Fan of RevSpaminator 11 fans permalink
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Is it just me, or does Car Hero (slide 1) look like something out of South Park?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:33 PM on 11/09/2009
- bartonfink I'm a Fan of bartonfink 33 fans permalink
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but when do I get my car that flies? probably as likely as any of these "design exercises"

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:54 PM on 11/08/2009
- Valkyrie Ice I'm a Fan of Valkyrie Ice 13 fans permalink
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is it just me, or does the Nissan V2G look like an Invid?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:33 PM on 11/06/2009
- Sharon Musgrave I'm a Fan of Sharon Musgrave 4 fans permalink
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Sorry- these things are ugly and uninviting. Wheres the Mom & Pop mobile? College students do not populate the highways!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:10 PM on 11/06/2009
- totalliberal I'm a Fan of totalliberal 62 fans permalink
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What happening too the world. Even the 'concept' cars are boring. I agree with MajorKong, what happened to the cool stuff. Those cars just look insipid.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:36 PM on 11/06/2009
- ramblingjohnny I'm a Fan of ramblingjohnny 8 fans permalink
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Concept car became boring after y2k when most peoples realized that we still have no jet pack or flying car! It kind of hard to get excited about future cars when your part of a generation that living in was called "THE FUTURE" no so long ago. The motto of this decade should be "The 2000 Decade! Been there, done that, got the freaking T-Shirt! Not that exciting!"

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:52 AM on 11/07/2009
- bobbobato I'm a Fan of bobbobato permalink

'Been there, done that, not so exciting'? We must be talking about diiferent decades. In this boring low-tech decade of ours we've seen the ubiquitous adoption of the Internet, digital cameras, smartphones, gps, super cheap PCs, photorealistic graphics, streaming video, pocket pcs, DVDs, voice control, revolutions in the media, and all the cultural effects related. I'm writing this on an iPod, and today I signed a contract on a touchscreen. How is the present not futuristic?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:43 PM on 11/07/2009
- NewGenerationNewIdeas I'm a Fan of NewGenerationNewIdeas permalink
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Yawn. In the future we still haven't learned the value of simplicity? A car that interacts with the human genome? Yet another turns driving into a game? We should be using tech to remove distraction. I don't think they've improved things since BMW brought us the 'neue classe' or Mazda introduced the miata.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:53 PM on 11/06/2009
- yakmeat I'm a Fan of yakmeat 9 fans permalink

it is interesting that a number of these appear to feature "hub motors" or other mechanism that drive the wheels directly rather than through a series of gears, shafts, etc.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 PM on 11/06/2009
- WilliePilgrim I'm a Fan of WilliePilgrim 28 fans permalink

They (expecially the orange bubble thingee) look like they were designed to carry their passengers (or should we call them "payloads"­?..I'm sure we'll have to pay loads to buy them) through a "series of tubes", which considering the carnage on our highways (and that's just on our highways now) it might be the only sensible way to go.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 11/06/2009
- SirenForSanity I'm a Fan of SirenForSanity 20 fans permalink
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"cars would adapt to the driver's body movements, synchronizing with the driver's gestures and movements.­"

What happens if you sneeze?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:45 PM on 11/06/2009
- ssg13565 I'm a Fan of ssg13565 27 fans permalink

Excellent question. Not only will they have to have voice recognition and gesture recognition, but they will also have to have involuntary gesture recognition.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:01 PM on 11/06/2009
- SirenForSanity I'm a Fan of SirenForSanity 20 fans permalink
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If they are going to go so far as to become almost organic, incorporating dna somehow, then I have to agree with MajorKong below. The wheel should already be outdated, IMO, they just seem to cumbersome for technology this responsive. Where's my George Jetson commuter car....hum­ph.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:09 AM on 11/07/2009
- MajorKong I'm a Fan of MajorKong 388 fans permalink
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This future sucks. I want the cool future that we had when I was a kid. The one with jet-packs, flying cars and moon colonies.

Where's my flying car already!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:19 PM on 11/06/2009
- shimmyshammy I'm a Fan of shimmyshammy 5 fans permalink
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That photo reminds me of Mr. Garrison's gyro-car on an episode of South Park. Hopefully it isn't as painful to drive.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 PM on 11/06/2009
- rosewelsh I'm a Fan of rosewelsh 8 fans permalink
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The Aptera 2e is available right now! Why wasn't it included? This "article" makes it seem like the car of the future is well.... in the future. It's not... they are taking orders for the Aptera 2e NOW:

Video links to take a look at the Aptera 2e (available NOW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE7jJoKqFgk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SlhwL5Fw2o&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KBf4bf0Z0Y&feature=player_embedded

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:08 PM on 11/06/2009
- Itsmyland2 I'm a Fan of Itsmyland2 9 fans permalink
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I want one of these. Would drive all my conservative neighbors nuts to see this in my driveway. They freak out about my Hybrid SUV

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 11/06/2009
- jnik I'm a Fan of jnik 2 fans permalink

We were supposed to have flying cars 9 years ago! And Pan Am flights to the moon! Fool me twice - ya won't get fooled agin!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 AM on 11/06/2009
- deepfreezevideo I'm a Fan of deepfreezevideo 70 fans permalink
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The Car Hero looks like a deranged vaginal speculum on wheels.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:14 AM on 11/06/2009
- OlHippie I'm a Fan of OlHippie 73 fans permalink
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I've been a car guy for 50 years, and these are just stupid comic book stuff. If you want the car of tomorrow; practical, efficient, and beautiful, just hire Chip Foos, and/or the Year ONe design team.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:13 AM on 11/06/2009
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