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Rolls-Royce Concept Elegantly Re-Imagines the Act of Entering a Vehicle

…as long as you're on the left side of the car, that is

By Rain Noe - June 22, 2016

in Cars

If you really break it down, you'll see that the way cars are currently designed makes climbing into them an ergonomically awkward act. While the able-bodied among us can perform the contortions with practiced ease, watch the deliberateness with which an elderly person climbs into a vehicle and you'll see it's a bizarre sequence of leaning, turning, scrunching, reaching and shifting.

The act of entering a car has been completely re-thought by Rolls-Royce for their 103EX concept car. Designed for their "Vision Next 100" initiative, which seeks to imagine "the future of luxury mobility," the driverless car won't be on the road anytime soon. But we were tickled at their vision of what the experience of entering a vehicle could be, were money and technological constraints no obstacle:

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Another nice touch: Curbside luggage retrieval.

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A final element we really dug is that although this is meant to be a futuristic concept, in a way it harkens back to the very birth of automobiles. Cars were once referred to as "horse-less carriages," and what the video depicts looks a lot like climbing into a carriage, without the steep height differential.

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An inspirational quote attributed to company co-founder Sir Henry Royce on the project page reads "Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it."

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Martin Horník

8 years ago

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People seem to forget that is only a concept car for the future.

It doesn't account for any speed bumps, because who knows if there are speed bumps in the future. Also it doesn't have any seatbelts either.

The vehicle is designed for UK, therefore he door is on the left side.

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G H

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Notice where they grab to stabilize their self while entering the car? If its so focused on entering the car, why did they forget to add an handle hold or palm rest? The user has to grab the dirty windchill to enter.

The actual door opening is very small for a vertical entry as well. The slanted/sleek door like that is only good if you enter sideways (as in a typical car).

Its a pretty car but completely misses the point they are trying to make.

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Thy Laxene

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So it is dumping down with rain and the car's inside and yourself get soaked. Also looks like the car is designed for perfectly flat roads with no speed bumps or anything. Maybe it is actually a flying car? They aren't wheels but lift turbines? This car is designed to get you to the uber-rich cloud cities. While us plebs live in the rubbish below.

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Raul Gonzalez III

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Everything´s nice and all but, how does it turn? The design of the front wheels gives me a reading of staight-paths-only. But at the sam time the design of the front wheel cover gives me a hint that it does not even have an actual wheel. Futuristic propelling?

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