The future of racing will look like something from a sci-fi movie. If racing is going to look like this, I can’t wait for the future. The Infiniti Synaptiq is a concept race car of the future designed for the LA Motor Show Design Challenge. Check out below for Top Gear’s review and photos of the concept!
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“Infiniti has designed a future racer able to compete in rally, circuit and even ‘Gymkhana-style’ jet-air courses. It’s not a race car, it’s a race… thing. Internet, meet the Infiniti ‘Synaptiq’.
Perhaps you require some context, then. It was rendered for this year’s LA Motor Show Design Challenge to answer the question of how humans will interact with cars in the year 2029, winning the ‘People’s Choice’ award in the process, too.
Infiniti’s San Diego design team had the idea to strap the driver into a universal cockpit that ‘docks’ itself to different vehicle types. So you strap up into this ‘Symbiotic User Interface Technology’ (SUIT, no less), through a spinal lock attachment, and then ‘dock’ into the three different types of car.
Inside your SUIT, you’re treated to liquid crystal canopies enhanced with an augmented reality system displaying all relevant information. The SUIT also suspends the driver into the correct position for whichever vehicle you’re piloting, and here’s where it gets even more surreal.
Infiniti has mapped out a new race course called the ARC (Air, Race, Circuit) for this Synaptiq. The first part is an F1-style road course from LA to Vegas. Then you dock into an off-roader to race to the Grand Canyon, and from there, dock into a jet racer to shoot back to LA in a Gymkhana-style air race. Yeah, exactly.”
