BMW + Local Motors = 2025 Urban Design Competition

[rwh11385]

Just announced on Tuesday, BMW Group and Local Motors are collaborating on a project to gain insight into future premium features and winner gets $7,500 and lunch in Munich with Managing Director of BMW's Research and Technology.

https://forge.localmotors.com/pages/competition.php?co=77#brief

The Design Brief

In this challenge we are looking exclusively for class-leading features and functions for BMW and MINI-branded vehicles in the year 2025. Your designs should improve the driving and ownership experience of premium vehicles and allow users to evolve and thrive in the context of an urban environment. Just in case you are tempted, this is not a new vehicle design competition.

The BMW Group, the global automotive leader behind the BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars brands, can be credited with inventing and implementing many features and functions that were considered game-changing firsts in the industry. BMW Group has spent decades designing and building ground-breaking vehicles that have revolutionized the automotive landscape.

This is your chance to work alongside BMW Group and continue this trend of revolutionary vehicle development. The potential for ideas is unlimited. Dream and share you vision of class-leading future features and functions. Reinvent not only the car, but also everything it can and should do in the future. Revolutionize the car as an urban tool and as an expression of urban living.

Join our Community. Face the challenge. Be part of the automotive future.

Total Prizes: $15,000
1st Prize: $7,500 and trip to Munich and lunch with Managing Director of BMW Group Research and Technology.
2nd Prize: $2,500
3rd Prize: $1,500
4th to 10th Prize: $500

Timeline
Submission Open:
September 25, 2012

Submission Ends:
October 16, 2012

Voting Begins
October 19, 2012

Voting Ends:
October 23, 2012

Winner Announced:
October 31, 2012

[TDE30]

Interdasting.

[masduro]

Vat ve vant is less driving ut more Komputing.

[TurboJake]

You should not submit:
• Complete vehicle designs
• Infrastructure solutions (new types of special roads, etc.)
• Features and Functions derived from some apocalyptic scenario (nuclear war, zombie attack, etc.). Though urban crime is a realistic scenario
• Flying cars

I loled at those two.

[rwh11385]

I was gonna say have radar tell where traffic is slowing ahead, etc. ... But apparently they are already including that in the i3 next year.

And autonomous is already in the works like Cadillac. BMW's ring robot car did pre-date Stanford's robo-Audi at Thunderhill. But here's a better video at Laguna Seca.

[Pl3wA]

what if there were no doors on the left side. and most of the right side of the car just slid down instead of conventional doors. though they do have that already. wtf do they want? everything they need is already here

[Wschnitz]

temp gauges so when tires heat up and you start to lose grip the suspension compensates? Pff Idk

[rwh11385]

wtf do they want? everything they need is already here

That's precisely what they are looking for. There's been plenty of talk of 2020-2025 and technology that may exist, but they are crowd-sourcing ideas about what they may have never expected.