BMW Envisions Futuristic Car-Sharing Service 'MINI Vision Next 100'

As the future of transportation continues unfolding before our very eyes, how will today’s auto industries respond in its wake? For BMW, there is a vision of which extrapolates autonomy, machine learning, and car-sharing services. Say hello to MINI Vision Next 100 – a futuristic concept vehicle where “every MINI will be your MINI.”

Photo Credit: BMW

Photo Credit: BMW

Anders Warming, who is the Head of MINI Design, has helped materialize BMW’s vision for futuristic transportation, as shown in the videos down below. The MINI Vision Next 100 is made up of an exterior surface that would digitally transform itself based on sequenced data of each individual passenger. As a new passenger takes the former’s place, the vehicle beams down a personalized greeting.

Not only that, using machine learning, the vehicle would be able to understand each passenger and use that data to create an environment that is both mentally and visually relaxing. By analyzing your mood, body language, and so on, as the vehicle drives itself, it will attempt to induce you in what audio-visual artist Marcus Lyall calls a “spa for your subconscious mind.”

FUTURE IMPLICATIONS

What the MINI Vision Next 100 hopes to bring about is a whole new outlook in what future transportation systems provide for their passengers. Instead of it just driving itself and operating under public car-sharing service, why not have these vehicles get to know you as well? Why not have it transform itself to not only match your preference of vehicle aesthetic, but equally do everything it can to prepare you for your destination? In the future, vehicles will become an extension of your own subconscious. They’ll be just as much a mediator for your health as they will be as a means of transportation.