# The future? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260 "2021-10-27T22:52:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![weekend-warrior](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/weekend-warrior/32/26122_2.png) [@weekend-warrior](https://community.cartalk.com/u/weekend-warrior)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/1 "2021-10-27T22:52:48Z")
looks cool but not sure about not having a steering wheel. you would need practice before driving on the roads. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/7/7/7793e364c31bd566db3ad5b64f9d3ac604ca94a7.jpeg "This Mercedes can drive sideways | AVTR") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A62mpfAJMo) ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/2 "2021-10-27T23:05:14Z")
Impractical design study. Show car. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/3 "2021-10-27T23:11:06Z")
In as much as cows are vegetarians, the leather is therefore vegan? Show/concept cars are rarely practical but some ideas make it to production. I see nothing here that is of any use except the four wheel steering, but GM offered that on trucks years ago, few consumers went for the \>$4000 option. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/4 "2021-10-27T23:49:24Z")
> [@Purebred](#): > > the leather is therefore vegan? There’s a, in my opinion stupid, trend to assign animal product names to their non-animal alternatives. So a substance that looks and feels like leather but which is made from plastic or plant derivatives becomes “vegan leather.” The trend is spreading. There’s a “vegan butcher shop” in my metro area now. ---
**Author:** ![weekend-warrior](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/weekend-warrior/32/26122_2.png) [@weekend-warrior](https://community.cartalk.com/u/weekend-warrior)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/5 "2021-10-27T23:50:35Z")
sorry I did not see the curse in the title. I did not mean to offend anyone. thought the car was interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/6 "2021-10-28T00:30:25Z")
> [@weekend-warrior](#): > > the car was interesting. To put it another way I am old enough to remember when cars all had mostly different looks and it was easy tot ell them apart now a days other than color they mostly look the same to me with a car like the one in the video you better obey all the traffic laws Or you will be very easily caught with it standing out the way it does. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/7 "2021-10-28T00:37:53Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > with it standing out the way it does. 🙄 In other words it would stand out like Jed Clampet at a black tie :affair. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/8 "2021-10-28T01:59:20Z")
Four wheel steering has returned as a feature on certain German luxury brands such as Mercedes. GM has brought the idea back with the GMC Hummer electric truck. ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/9 "2021-10-28T10:11:31Z")
OK, full transparency: to those who flagged the post, I technically “disagreed” with it only because if I agreed, the whole discussion would be left hidden. The f-word in the original link wasn’t optimal, so I found a video about the same car from the same account and subbed it in. There wasn’t anything wrong with the content posted, it was the URL, and I didn’t want to get rid of a decent discussion for the link it sat on. @weekend-warrior — honestly if you wanted you can change the video link, just not with a salty address. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-future/180260/10 "2021-10-28T14:13:55Z")
Prototype vehicles are produced all the time. And a large majority of them never get produced. They are concept cars to take designs to the limit. Many times you might see features from these cars show up.