Will this car ever become a reality? We doubt it. Take the drone and autonomy away, and the Etso, which resembles a Lamborghini/McLaren mashup, actually looks brilliant. Nevertheless, Rinspeed continues to say how the Etos will be finished in a material "still completely alien to car designer" which feels like "magic".īut let us not be too harsh. If we were to reach into the fabric of spacetime and pull out a car from the year 2050, it might very well resemble the lemon-shaded concept you see above. Drones that follow their owners via a GPS tracker already exist and are used for shooting surfing videos, but cars are rather faster than surfboards – and consumer drones, for that matter – so unfortunately this also reads a bit like a fairy tale. The company added: " could also takes a video of the wild ride on the favourite fun road and stream it live to friends." 'Feels like magic' We are not really sold on that one, Rinspeed, given the terrible battery life of drones small enough to land on the deck of a two-seater, and the general illegality of letting a drone fly off to the shops without you.
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The company justifies the need for a drone and landing pad on the back of a sports car by saying: "The many benefits this offers are evident: For example, it could fetch a bouquet of flowers the driver ordered online and even deliver it directly to the lucky recipient." And the first car named after its Internet address.Interior of the Rinspeed Etos includes a steering wheel which retracts in autonomous mode Rinspeedīut it is with the drone where Rinspeed has truly taken a leap into the future – and an unlikely future at that.
: One part hot rod, one part pick-up truck, one part underwater diving machine. Presto: An accordion-like car that “magically” extends from a tiny two-seater to a 12-foot long four-seater (“Presto!”).ĭock+Go: A mini-truck that can ride on either two or three axles, depending on your hauling needs. SQuba: The world’s first submersible car, inspired by the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Here are a few of our faves from the company’s 35 year history. Ʃtos will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early 2016.ĭon’t like the drone car? Rinspeed’s a Mecca of outlandish concept cars. Besides the flyer’s video capabilities, the car-drone can “fetch a bouquet of flowers the driver ordered online and even deliver it to the lucky recipient,” according to Rinspeed’s press release. This highly modified BMW i8 is a demonstrator car for. to Europe and now presents the tos concpet in Geneva. On the back of the car: a drone, of which Rinspeed founder Frank M. Rinspeed returned from the 2016 Consumer Electronic Show in the U.S. In the car’s autonomous mode, the steering wheel contracts into the car, and the curved window screens move closer to the passengers to provide better views, as well as electronic entertainment. Rinspeed, the Swiss car company and “innovation lab” that loves to post John Lennon and Gandhi quotes on its homepage - alongside an array of outrageous concept cars - just released info on their first car/drone hybrid.ĭubbed the Ʃtos, the hybrid contains not only an “intuitive, adaptive” autopilot, but a built-in drone, complete with its own on-board landing pad. Naturally: someone combined them, Frankenstein style. Everyone’s talking about driverless cars.