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Mini's vision of the time to come has us being driven nigh in electric cars, autonomously. The torso changes colour to suit the preference of the electric current occupants. When non beingness used, the futurity Mini parks itself, and connects to a recharging network on its own.

This is the Mini Vision Next 100 concept, function of parent BMW'south 100th ceremony. The Mini, Rolls-Royce, and BMW divisions each prepared concept cars suggesting how each would produce and sell cars two to three decades from now. The Mini concept is less outrageous in concrete class than the Rolls-Royce Vision Side by side 100 concept, and doesn't have to bargain as much with the BMW make's angst over what will go of the Ultimate Driving Machine, long term, in an era that might be majority self-driving.

Minis to be shared, not owned

"Every Mini is my Mini" might be the tagline for the future Mini. It is a auto meant to exist shared amid multiple riders. Retrieve of an autonomously driven taxi, just cleaner, and one that isn't painted yellow (Us) or black (England). Instead, the time to come Mini adapts its features to the current occupants. That includes a "discrete argent pare" with chameleon features, and being able to modify its color and graphics depending on who'south in the car right now. The interior is too child-bearing, Mini says: "The Mini of the time to come will be available 24/7, able to pick its driver up from their desired location in a fully automated way and will arrange itself to the commuter's individual tastes, interests and preferences."

The interface between commuter and car — Mini's Siri, Mini's Alexa — is the "Cooperizer." (Maybe the URL was bachelor?) It's a circular, um, fixture atop the dash through which the commuter adjusts the interior "ambient," infotainment settings, and driving modes — driver in charge or car in charge — for "a perfectly personalized driving experience." An "Inspire Me" feature of Cooperizer gets the motorcar to suggest songs or good roads to drive, in case you're out in the countryside, and not slogging through Houston traffic.

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An even smaller Mini

Mini says advances in packaging could brand the future Mini even smaller than today's car: "The efficiently-packaged, cipher-emission drive system and the reduced demand for crash zones in the future enable a compactness of torso not then far removed from the starting time Mini back in 1959." Unlike the Rolls-Royce concept that is meant to be self-driven, the Mini would always have steering, braking, and accelerator controls, though they could slide out of the way.

That kickoff Mini was 124 inches long, a shade over 10 anxiety. Today's Mini comes in multiple sizes, the smallest well-nigh ii feet longer.

BMW's Vision 100 BMW brand concept

BMW'southward Vision 100 BMW brand concept

BMW's Vision: augmented reality, assisted driving

BMW showed off the BMW make Vision Adjacent 100 concept for the main BMW brand back in March. It stuffs in every bit much assistance for the driver as possible, to go along it a driver's car. For case, the windshield is a huge augmented reality panel. Think of a head-upwards display that grew and grew. An AR display could projection the correct path at a circuitous interchange or highway exit (behave right from the second-most right-hand lane, then bear left, then turn left) by painting a road line on the windshield, in line with the driver's line of vision, so the the line is directly overtop the correct route.

The Live Geometry characteristic comprises 800 molded triangles along the dashboard and doors. They tin lie flat or pop upwards (and show a ride underside) to alert y'all to the curve in the route (augmenting the AR guidelines). Or a handful of triangles on the right could pop up when a car appears in your correct side blind spot. The motility of the triangles would help alert the commuter besides, equally might the motion of the triangles flipping off the nuance your sunglasses or empty Craven McNuggets box. The possibilities are endless.

Active Geometry would employ 4D printing, the 4th dimension being not time, but the ability of the object to change shape in the presence of an electric charge, light, or heat.