Concept Cars
1. What is a concept car ? What do you think cars will be like in the future ?
2. Watch the short video, what are some of the new ideas they talk about for cars of the future ?
3. What do these words mean ? Use your translator to find out.
comfortable
interiors
traditional
intelligent
cockpit
communication
autonomous
reflected
enormously
4. Watch and listen to the video clip again and fill in the blanks on a seperate sheet of paper.
If you came to the show ten years ago, you would have been looking at a load of sport's cars. The world of car design is changing 1.________________ and what's 2.______________here in the student's that are really designing the future that we're going to be part of, is how 3.______________ car's are really going to change the way how we're going to use car's. How they look and how they work.
What I think is the most important thing in a car is for you to relax, or even sleep in a car. You may travel long time, or even during the night you have to sleep in the car so it might be important for you to sleep, have a 4.____________place to sleep in.
Most car's have been designed around the 5.______________ of the driver and three people put around them. We're going to be able to have completely different 6.______________. The car can be your office, it can be your work space, it can be your play room, it can be somewhere to relax.
I think the way to think about autonomous cars is the difference between 7.____________phones and the 8.______________land line, but when you get 9.________________then you get all the services that come with it in one go.
5. Finally, watch and read at the same time to see if your answers were correct.
If you came to the show ten years ago, you would have been looking at a load of sport's cars. The world of car design is changing enormously and what's reflected here in the student's that are really designing the future that we're going to be part of, is how autonomous car's are really going to change the way how we're going to use car's. How they look and how they work.
What I think is the most important thing in a car is for you to relax, or even sleep in a car. You may travel long time, or even during the night you have to sleep in the car so it might be important for you to sleep, have a comfortable place to sleep in.
Most car's have been designed around the cockpit of the driver and three people put around them. We're going to be able to have completely different interiors. The car can be your office, it can be your work space, it can be your play room, it can be somewhere to relax.
I think the way to think about autonomous cars is the difference between intelligent phones and the traditional land line, but when you get communication then you get all the services that come with it in one go.
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Enzo Ferrari
"Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius."
Elon Musk
"The cars we drive say a lot about us."
Alexandra Paul