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Lincoln’s Concept Car Replaces Steering Wheel with Mouse-Like ‘Controller’
A video on CNN explains that “the fully autonomous vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals,” emphasizing that it’s a “concept car” — a show piece. (“It’s not set for production and won’t be sold to customers.”) But yes, it’s an electric car that replaces the steering wheel with what Lincoln is calling a “chess piece controller,” a hand-held, car-shaped piece of crystal that sits on a table in the center of the car. Drivers “grab it and move it around and move the actual vehicle,” Kemal Curic, Global Design Director for Lincoln Motor Company, tells the Drive. (The table-top surface apparently functions like a kind of map, with the hand-held piece acting as an avatar.) Or as the Drive puts it, “Remember being a kid and pushing a toy car around on a city rug? Lincoln designers do.”
The site ultimately concludes that the designs “really speak to one’s natural instinct of movement. As humans, whenever we want to move something we just pick it up and move it; so why should our cars be any different…? [C]oncept cars don’t have to make sense. They just need to be a cool representation of our wildest ideas.”
In addition, CNN explains, “Because the car drives itself, the front row seats can be turned to face the rear passengers.”
There’s other futuristic features. CNN’s video shows what Lincoln is calling “smart wheel covers” which fully encase the tires while offering a decorative electric light show (which doubles as a battery indicator). Even the floor is a massive digital screen, and there’s also a full-length hinged glass roof — an upper canopy which according to Engadget “can project realistic animated scenes onto the floor and ceiling.”
“Unfortunately many of the ideas presented here will inevitably be cut, going the way of Mercedes’ awesome, Avatar-inspired trunk hatch wigglers.”
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Lincoln replaced the steering wheel with a ‘chess piece controller’ in its Model L100 concept
Monterey Car Week has been a hotbed of EV debuts this year with unveilings from Dodge, Acura, DeLorean and a host of other automakers. On Thursday, Lincoln revealed the Model L100, its futuristic foray into electrified mobility, which draws inspiration from the company’s very first luxury sedan, the 1922 Model L.
Like its pre-Depression predecessor, the Model L100 exhibits a shocking degree of opulence. “Next generation battery cell and pack technologies,” read the Thursday release, will deliver “game changing energy density,” while the steering wheel will be replaced with a “jewel-inspired chess piece controller that captures light and depth by redefining the vehicle controls inside the cabin.” That fancy yoke won’t be much use for actual steering thanks to the vehicle’s theoretical autonomous driving capabilities taking care of the navigating.
“Concept vehicles allow us to reimagine and illustrate how new experiences can come to life with the help of advanced technologies and allow our designers more creative freedom than ever before,” Anthony Lo, Ford’s chief design officer, in a statement. “With the Model L100, we were able to push the boundaries in ways that evolve our Quiet Flight brand DNA and change the way we think about Lincoln designs of tomorrow.”
Other fantastical design details include animal-free interiors with front row seats that can flip to face the rear passengers (good thing the car’s driving itself), a digital floor and canopy that can project realistic animated scenes onto the floor and ceiling, a full-length hinged glass roof and reverse-hinged doors that open up like a lily.
There’s no word yet on when the production vehicle spawned from this concept will arrive. Unfortunately many of the ideas presented here will inevitably be cut, going the way of Mercedes’ awesome, Avatar-inspired trunk hatch wigglers.
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Steam Joy-Con support rounds out Nintendo controller lineup
A new Steam client beta update from Valve adds Steam Joy-Con support for the Nintendo Switch controllers, meaning that they are now officially supported as a way to play your PC games. This addition rounds out the list of supported Switch pads, which includes the Switch Pro controller and Nintendo’s range of classic style controllers.
The Steam client beta update for August 5 introduces official support for the small, paired controllers which are the mainstay for the Nintendo Switch console. Much like with the Switch itself, you can use the controllers individually – where they will be treated as a mini-gamepad – or pair them together to enable the functionality of a full-size controller.
While the Switch Joy-Con may not be most people’s optimal way to play, they do offer some rather useful functionality. For example, instead of a traditional cross-shaped directional pad on the left, the Joy-Con features four distinct buttons much like those of the “face buttons” typically found on the right side of a controller. These separated buttons can come in handy for games that require tight directional precision, especially in classic titles such as Tetris or Pac-Man where an accidental wrong directional input can spell disaster.
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