Peugeot Moville robotic car is a runaround for the mega-city

August 21, 2008, 2:58 pm by Jim Hill 1 comment

Filed under Prototypes Tags: automotive, car, Eco, Moville, Peugeot, prototype

With omni directional electromagnetic balls for wheels, solar powered batteries and enough artificial intelligence to negotiate other traffic and greet you with open doors, the remarkable teardrop-shaped Moville is equipped for the mega-cities of the future.

Concept cars are meant to push the envelope, but Peugeot’s teardrop-shaped eco car licks the seal and posts the envelope to Mars. The designer, Woo-Ram Lee, set out to create a personal transport device for the future where he anticipated a shortage of fossil fuels and heaving mega-cities. Moville can use its unique shape, omni directional, frictionless wheels and artificial intelligence to pick it’s way through this vision of the future and uses solar power and electromagnets to propel itself. Damn! We were hoping for hover cars.

Out TBA | £TBA | Woo-Ram Lee (via The Design Blog)

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orian

9-17-2008

The Japanese have a strange aesthetic intelligence which mystifies the Caucasian eye. However this time, Peugeot, the French company has created something akin to a Japanese design, a teardrop concept called the MoVille.
The competition pits designers from all over the world against each other, with the winner having his or her car (or whatever you want to call it) built in full-scale form.
The teardrop shape sure does put an elegantly French spin on the trendy omnidirectional future-pod shape.
Also, the car, which uses a robot-pod to drive us around, may not be the preferred driver for many people. However, when the robotics will be so developed, we may start changing our minds and desire for a MoVille for all its French elegance and beauty.
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