Next, by Italian designers is an advanced, smart, self-driving transportation system, based on swarms of modular vehicles.
Each Next module can join and detach with other modules on standard city roads. When joined, they create an open, bus-like area among modules, allowing passengers to stand and walk from one module to another.
The modules can drive autonomously on regular roads, join themselves and detach even when in motion, and that when joined, the doors between modules fold, creating a walkable open space among modules.
These key features are the reason why this project is radically different and not comparable to other projects such as: folding cars (Hiriko and similar), Rinspeed Micromax and any other modular roadtrain system based on new railways, dedicated infrastructures or on the locomotive-followers paradigm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk12TmZ3GiQ
source Next
via designboom
Leave A Comment