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today we're gonna take a look at sci-fi
cars like this one here look and see how
current cars actually compare to the
sci fi movie depictions from the past
over all we are gonna examine four major
points so make sure you watch until the end of this video
such that you don't miss any important
information
with some amazing cars on display at CES 2019 we couldn't help but to
wonder how some cars that will soon come
out like the byton M-byte or some
cars that are already out on the road
today like the Tesla Model S 3 and X
compare to the most famous sci-fi movie
cars now new amazing technologies are on the horizon such as self-driving cars
and yes even flying cars but that is a
topic for another video because this
topic is so extensive and there's so
much going on that we need a whole
separate video on this also quite futuristic car designs are in the works so
it seems as if the 2020s could finally
give us our promised sci-fi cars this is
already long overdue because the
automotive world was basically sleeping
for decades until one company came
along and disrupted everything
As a kid watching all these sci-fi movies car technology was always an aspect that I
found very interesting the cars always
had super futuristic designs such as in
Back to the Future 2 or the famous
spinner from Blade Runner or Deckards
cool police car or the 1992 GM
ultralite concept car from the movie
demolition man and then there was also
the Audi RSQ from i, Robot and of
course the famous Lexus 2054 from
Minority Report one of my all-time
favorite sci-fi movie Cars Oh and sure my
all-time favourite self-driving car the
famous Johnny cab from Total Recall but
how about the cars from our time can
they keep up with the sci-fi movie ones or
are we again lagging behinde the sci-fi
visions like in the video where we compared cyberpunk to reality
which you can watch right here
Deckard's police car and the spinner
from Blade Runner were both designed by
legendary visual futurist Syd Mead who
also designed all the sets on the movie
Blade Runner his design style is so far
ahead of our time that even by today's
standards we have no equivalent on the
streets whatsoever comparable to the
spinner from Blade Runner or Deckard's
police car it seems that the design
language of cars is absolutely not
developing into the direction envisioned
by Syd Mead which is kind of sad because I would have totally bought one if it would exist
But you are not a Blade runner! But I can become one! How?
Eh..training police training
on the other hand the Audi RSQ from
i, Robot is not so far out from the design
perspective some upcoming cars like the
Lucid air the Byton M-Byte from CES
2019 with its futuristic exterior and
interior design Buaaa! look at that huge screen!
and the running joke Farady Future which in all
likelyhood will never see the light of day are already getting pretty close
to this style of futuristic design language the 1992 GM ultralite concept
from demolition man is also pretty close design-wise in the movies portrayed to
be an aerodynamicly super efficient
electric and self-driving car in reality
we see more and more such
aerodynamically efficiently shaped cars
coming out such as for example the uniti one from Swedish startup company uniti
where we by the way already have the key only the car is still missing!
that small detail so we see that
design-wise we are already approaching
some sci-fi movie cars and the 2020s
will certainly go even more into that
direction but something like the  Lexus 2054
from Minority Report is still quite a
ways off Aerodynamically it has a half
drop ship which is the most efficient
shape a car can have
I think we'll see cars slowly evolving
into that direction not for reasons of
futuristic design but for reasons of
efficiency the tesla model 3
and s have drag coefficients of 0.23 and
0.24 respectively
compare this to a half drop shape with a
coefficient of 0.09 and you see
there is still a long way for optimizing just by reducing the air drag we could
significantly increase the range of
modern electric cars and make them sci-fi
looking at the same time it's not by
chance that the most futuristic looking
cars that were ever produced like the GM EV1 and the VW XL1
are also the most aerodynamic ones their
drag coefficient is or was at 0.19
self-driving cars are together with
flying cars one of the most prominently
featured car types in sci-fi the funny
Johnny cab from Total Recall aside some
of the most prominent ones are again
from demolition man
self-drive on self-drive engaged
and the ones from Minority Report the other sci-fi cars might also have these features however
they are not shown explicitly in the
movies with self-driving cars many will
first think of KITT from Knight Rider
who cannot only drive himself but who
also has an advanced AI that can speak
weirdly AI assistants that can speak are
also a thing that will come actually one
car is already out with an AI assistant
the Nio ES8 which is a full electric SUV
currently sold in China he even can
cheer you up when you're sad and tell you a few funny jokes these weird Chinese people
and self-driving wise Tesla already has
the autopilot which despite its name is
not a real self-driving autopilot yet
where there are five levels of autonomy
for self-driving and Tesla's autopilot
is currently at level two full
self-driving capability that drives you
around in the city however it needs to
be level five and this is quite a ways
off still I think this might maybe take
10 more years until it comes to market the next
generation of self-driving will be level
three autonomy which is basically full
self driving on the highway Tesla cars
will probably already have this feature
within the next few years because the
autopilot is always updated and the
Byton M-byte will also feature level 3
autonomy when it comes out in late 2019
so in this regard the next years will
be amazing
Yeah!!!
YAAAAA!
we don't exactly know which sci fi cars are electrified but we assume that
basically all the sci fi cars mentioned
in this video are electric maybe with
the exception of the two Blade runner
cars where it's unknown how they are
propelled so electrification is standard in sci-fi and here we can keep
up with sci-fi thanks to Tesla already in
2012 they came out with the Tesla Model S
which even back then had a real world
range of 400 kilometers When all other car
manufacturers either had absolutely no
electric vehicles or some funny looking
ones with a range of let's see 100
kilometres and even today Tesla is in a
league of its own when the so-called
Tesla killers like the Audi e-tron or the
Mercedes EQC don't manage to have the acceleration or the range of a
Tesla it's pretty clear that Tesla will
continue leading the technological advance
regarding electric cars for quite a while they will continue offering the
highest range and the quickest acceleration certainly for a long time
take the 2020 Tesla Roadster for example a range of 1000 kilometres and from 0
to 100 in 2.1 seconds that is some a-grade sci-fi stuff right there
no one can yet compete with them in that regard
This is more insane than even sci fi dared to dream of
again we emphasize that we'll do a
separate video on flying cars and take a
close look at all the advances in that
field here we want to focus on other
technologies take digital instrument
clusters for example they were already
prophesized in 1982 in Blade Runner and
now we indeed have cars that on the
interior at least look super sci-fi like
the Tesla Model S which has the digital
instrument cluster and this insane huge
screen already since 2012 again far
before other companies and of course the
extreme huge screen we mentioned already
of the Byton M-Byte
Huge screen! BUAAA!
we love gigantic screens but stuff like the magnetically adhesive vehicles from
Minority Report which can drive up
vertically large buildings are still
very far beyond our technology or the
audi RSQ with its magnetically
levitating spherical wheels here at
least there already exist patents for
such a propulsion system this will
enable an absolutely frictionless
bearing of the spherical wheels and
enable a car to move in every direction
even sideways that's sure fascinating
technology which we might see someday
who knows
so we see even though the design-wise there's still a lot more room to get sci fi-ier
is that even a word?
upcoming cars will certainly look more and more
futuristic self-driving cars are already
here in parts and will become widespread
until the late 2020s on the electrification side we are already quite
advanced thanks to Tesla again and will become
even more advanced such that we will
overtake sci fi depictions or probably
have already overtaken them and
fancy-looking huge digital screens are
already mainstream even AI assistants are coming to sum it up we think that
already now we have some sci-fi elements in our cars but the next decade will be
insane by the late 2020s we will be living in a sci fi automotive world
so we hope you enjoyed this video about sci-fi cars tell us in the comments below which is your
favorite sci-fi car the Lexus 2054 or
Deckards police car or the spinner or the
car from demolition man or Johnny cab
from Total Recall and of course what is
your favorite existing car or upcoming
car that qualifies as being futuristic
the Tesla Model S the Byton M-Byte the
Audi e-tron the Jaguar i-pace the tabby
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