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LA MOTOR SHOW: Throwing down gauntlet to designers
What will traffic policing be like in the future? BMW, GM, Honda, Benz and Subaru offer their viewsThe event organisers for the Los Angeles Auto Show will announce the winner of the show's Ninth Annual Design Challenge at the show during the media day on November 29.
This year's quest pits designers from BMW, GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Subaru in a battle to formulate the most inventive vehicles for law enforcement patrolling in the year 2025. There were practically no limits placed on the designers, who were invited to knock themselves out developing whatever seemed viable 13 years from now – including drones and renewable-energy vehicles. According to press material out of LA, the judges will settle on the winner based on a number of factors, among them: speed, agility, creativity, emissions and environmental considerations, maintenance and recyclability.
Sitting on the judging panel is Tom Matano, the executive director at the School of Industrial Design at San Francisco's Academy of Art University. With him is Imre Molnar, provost and chief academic officer at Detroit's College for Creative Studies; and Stewart Reed, chair of Transportation Design at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design. The guest judge for this year is Bruce Meyer, a board member of the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation, former racer and past chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum.
And these are the finalists:
BMW Group DesignworksUSA – E-Patrol (Human-Drone Pursuit Vehicle),
General Motors Advanced Design California – Volt Squad,
Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Advanced Design Studio, California – CHP Drone Squad
Honda R&D Company, Ltd., Advanced Design Studio, Tokyo – 'CHiPs 2025 Traffic Crawler
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Advanced Design Center California – Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force,
Subaru Research and Development, Inc. – SHARC (Subaru Highway Automated Response Concept).
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