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Is no one going to mention how stupid the concept photo looks? If you don't have a steering wheel, why wouldn't you have a console for the driver or per person? If I have nothing else better to do, I'd want the controls the driver will interact with to be more accessible to the driver.

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Seems OK to me. Why increase costs and unreliability by adding extra screens and controls? As for having it "for the driver", that's old-car thinking. In this car, both front seats are equivalent, there's no need to select one as "the driver".

> unreliability

of what? The entertainment? If having two screens reduces the safety of the vehicle, it isn't a vehicle I want to be in.

No, I mean there's more stuff that can break.

It's not much of a problem if your video player breaks. (That is, unless you plug it at the same interface as the driving computer.)

There's no driver position, though. It could be the left or the right side. Perhaps for drive-thru reasons people would prefer the left, but there's not a lot of required left-handedness when you're not driving.

'primary passenger' then. And my initial thought was that there should be two consoles, then I reverted back to a single console for the driver without making the final leap to, 'oh wait, there is no driver'.

Honestly what I'd like is a safety oriented cabin designed to minimize whiplash. Restrain my head and neck, surround my body with impact absorbing material and put a screen in front of my face and a keyboard within reach of my hands and we're done.

I don't want a large void space inside the passenger area of my car at all.

All those things exist. A HANS device, a good bucket seat and a good harness do what you're asking.

I'm looking for more than a strap and a seat. I'd like the entire interior space to be repurposed to absorb impact energy.

Yeah, that will sell real well, especially to all the claustrophobic people. "Here sit in this moveable coffin". No thanks.

They probably just ‘shopped one half of the car reversed.

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