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When you talk with some well-known product designers and furniture designers, it’s the opposite. They’re dreaming about autonomous-driving cars because they think, ‘Oh, finally we can make the furniture, or a small house on wheels, we can express ourselves’. But actually, car designers know what to do if a car has to be in autonomous driving mode and how the car should look, because our job is to create different shapes that go with the concept and its use.
I would say for most of us, ‘autonomous’ is not the dream, but it’s interesting to do. I studied industrial design and then vehicle design at the Royal College of Art but even at the RCA I was always inspired by furniture design. I’m very comfortable with it, but a car is a dynamic moving object. It’s not a house and it’s not an aircraft either. We are in between these walls. Car design is so specific, we need to keep our own idea of what we do.
The engineering requirements to…
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