Anthony Jannarelly created the Apple iMo concept car for his MA Automotive Design at Coventry university. Apple-like design cues are very much infused into the concept car, and one of the videos after the jump which shows the iMo on the roads depicts a future where the iMo is the default means of motoring in the future.
In Jannarelly’s concept, the Apple iMo is more than an urban car, its a robot designed to be 100% autonomous and assist you in your daily activities, due to be released in 2024. The iMo can take up to 3 people in it, or even dedicate its entire interior capacity to transporting goods, since it can travel by itself without being driven. Its interior can reshape itself on the fly to form seats or a flat space to maximise storage area.
The shell of an Apple iMo is made of polycarbonate, and it only has two wheels. It balances itself using gyroscopic sensors, and can lean on the side by changing the diameter of its wheels. It measures 2000mm long, 1990mm wide and 1700mm tall. Since there are only two wheels and therefore only 1 axle, there isn’t really a wheelbase to be measured. It has 60kW of power, which translates into 80 horsepower.
The iMo works hand in hand with a global traffic and parking system to manage the flow of iMos on the road and store (park) them whenever the owner has reached his destination. The parking system frees ground space to maximize human usage. iMos can either be stored underground, be parked on a wall, or be parked in the air simply by allowing it to be picked up by zeppelins. These zeppelins either just hang around in mid-air with iMos on them or transport them to parking lots at the top of buildings.
Is this the future of personal transportation?
Look after the jump for more images and videos of the Apple iMo, a concept by Anthony Jannarelly.
Video: Apple iMo – Say Hello to iMo
Video: Apple iMo – Time to Drive!
Video: Apple iMo – Life is Simple
Video: Apple iMo – Free the City
Video: Apple iMo – Dynamic Sound Filter
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
not gonna be love by car enthusiast…
it can travel faster down hill, use the ‘roll down the hill’ method ,hahaha!
Nice…..
thats a super nonsense bush!t… a “car” or other means of people mover shouldnt be as simple as that… and i dont see any so called 80hp “engine” from the video where it breaks the part of imo…
so, how do a person get in and out of the car?
Yes, I believe this’ll be the ipod of cardom. U can say anythin, yet, it’ll sell……if Steve Jobs decided to give it a nod.
Better use it as a mouse
Is this concept came from one of the cleaning robots in ?
Anyway, I won’t drive a vacum cleaner on the street, or all the way to my toilet located across my 100 acres front yard garden.
“Is this the future of personal transportation?”
I hope not. God prohibits!
it can travel by itself without being driven… whats the brake light doing there.. oh but i do hope it comes with a ipod dock… :p
Looks like a lotta fun… wouldn’t mind getting one of those for simple outings, shopping or cruising in the city
not design for road usage one laa…
those on campus or.. google HQ might get one of these for their staff to go to toilet use laa. hehehe
next what? microsoft making supercars? SAP makes a bugatti?
what is this
the future is darkening hahaa
segway on steroid
why dean kamen didnt think of it first?
it will sell, because it’s a LIFESTYLE product.
steve jobs will do an excellent job of marketing it, and people will buy buy buy because they can’t live without it, and they perceive steve job to be a god.
hahaha.
no thank you.
soon apple will build LCD tvs…microwaves…etc lol
wonder if this iMo can be controlled using an ipod or iphone…hmmm
never ever let computer makers control the car industry, we are already enslaved to microsoft. fuck them.
come on htc,make a rival car model as a competitor to iMo.
at least make a joint venture with china fake Apple to market “htc hybrid touch” car as an iMo competitor.
ok,im not a fan of Apple.(i dont own any of their products)
but iMo is another great engineering,they aren’t build for today generation,its for the coming ones.
well,engineering & physics are just a crazy fantasy world for most, for some they challenge that term to innovate and design the future.
“oh humans,we bring you down this and you love it though your grandfather did laugh & deny it when he was as your age” (bible of innovation:every innovation did had the same fate)
hehe
apple make moving rice cooker on road~~