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October 12, 2007
Honda Shares Its Utopian Vision
If Honda's predictions of life in 2057 are correct, we're in for a doozy. Talk about a paradigm shift. But Honda is a company about changes and to adapt to this new life, Honda created the 124 concept.
Honda believes in the future, people will abandon cities for suburbs. The 124 concept is actually 4 cars communally shared between 4 owners. The cars can merge together to take advantage of HOV lanes. Each passenger is still in their own pod so you don't sacrifice privacy. Pretty radical huh? But what events take place between now and 2057 prompt such a different way of getting around? Hit the jump!
According to Honda:
In a fit of desperation back in 2025, the people of Earth decided to incinerate their overwhelming amount of garbage by hurtling it at the sun. Aside from freeing up new real estate that once was occupied by landfills, this solution also created sunlight that provides a lot more energy than it did back in 2007 with the added bonus of leather-like tans taking all of five minutes. This has made solar-powered vehicles a reality (finally!). Unfortunately, the municipal cost of launching trash into space means humanity is poor from paying exorbitant taxes. As such, a single family can only afford 1/4th of a real car and must travel in HOV lanes with strangers.
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Comments
Not to be nit-picky, but wouldn't it be a "distopian" vision rather than a "utopian" one since their version of the future doesn't sound that appealing or upbeat?
Posted by: yani at October 14, 2007 3:39 PM
The future sounds horrible, even if it does have wild sci-fi looking rides.
Posted by: Ray at October 15, 2007 7:05 AM
C'mon!
Are you asking your subscribers to believe that Honda actually wrote this article, or approved it? I don't believe you.
Mark
Posted by: MarkTheHandyman at October 18, 2007 12:07 AM
Wild isn't it but yes it's true. This design was created for and approved by Honda. It's one of the concepts competing in the Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge.
Posted by: Electro^Plankton at October 18, 2007 12:35 AM
It's a neat illustration, but boy, what a ludicrously stupid scenario to use as inspiration for your concept design.
Posted by: Androo at October 20, 2007 9:32 PM
It's a neat illustration, but boy, what a ludicrously stupid scenario to use as inspiration for your concept design.
Posted by: Androo at October 20, 2007 9:36 PM
Honda must have gotten there vision from Futurama, because I remember an episode with the huge a garbage ball being hurled into space, so yeah...
Posted by: SomeGuy at November 3, 2007 8:50 PM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsered by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:03 AM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsored by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:05 AM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsored by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:06 AM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsored by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:06 AM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsored by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:08 AM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsored by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:12 AM
This is obviously a student project (perhaps sponsored by Honda) but conceived , designed, and promoted by an art school student.
Posted by: Craig at May 27, 2008 11:14 AM