Design Predictability vs. Design Reach

[Mriley]

That is the actual window line. If you look at it form other angles, it's not blocked off or made smaller. The side window glass is *tiny*, just like a Camaro's. And if you look at the pic of the driver, the window sill at just above his shoulder line. The glass is about 2.5" shorter than before.
That gap for the hood is the same as the current car.. .because the this car is based heavily on the current car.

Because there is a gap by the hood it means the s550 is based heavily on the current car? That makes very little sense.

I'm sure the designers/engineers could make the current car completely unrecognizable if they wanted to. They just need the budget given for a redesign (opposed to mid platform refresh). The gap by the hood tells us nothing about how much or little it is based off the current car.

Also may I ask why are you so hell bent on the s550 being just an evolution of the s197? Do you have actual proof of this?

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[6SPD4ME]

Because there is a gap by the hood it means the s550 is based heavily on the current car? That makes very little sense. . .

This only means that the designers are using a similar style Windshield angle and wipers setup as the current design. There is no "Cab-Forward" design elements similar to the Camaro and Challenger in the S550.

 

[Topnotch]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/intr...thinks-for-itself-vCBCZhlgSXizGKjVlwsUdw.html

 

[Norm Peterson]

I would not have anything to do with a car that could do those things unless I could permanently shut them off.

The excuse of developing a system that by specific mention would allow a driver to distract himself is exactly the wrong way to go about promoting that sort of thing. Crash avoidance under foggy or semi-white-out conditions would be a much better approach. We DON'T need to have "safety systems" that actually promote unsafe behavior behind the wheel by specifically demonstrating that they might be able to cover for such inattentive behaviors.



On cars being able to park themselves in tight spaces . . . what does that imply when the car parked in the adjacent space is not so equipped? What's the risk that your car might get door-dinged (or keyed by said other car's owner out of frustration) because your self-parked car jammed him out of his human-parked car?

Clearly the developers have not thought this side of it through very well at all. Like Jurassic Park, they're so focused on being able to do this that it hasn't occurred to them whether they should (they shouldn't).


Norm

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