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Tokyo 2007 Preview: Take your Suzuki PIXY to the track or beach
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In the future, when walking is completely obsolete (in Japan, at least), and humans ditch their Nikes in favor of personal mobility devices like the Suzuki PIXY, mankind will still be able to take part in the fun stuff like driving sports cars and boating. We'll just have to do it from within the confines of our PIXY pods. In addition to the 2-person SSC (Suzuki Sharing Coach), Suzuki has come up with the SSF, a single-person sports car meant to accommodate the PIXY, and the SSJ, a PIXY-ready watercraft. Both will be presented (sketches of them, at least) at the Tokyo Motor Show this month. We're waiting for the day when future Tokyo concepts from the Japanese manufacturers eschew the human body altogether and simply turn us into wheeled versions of the B'omarr Monks from the Star Wars universe. [Source: Suzuki]
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mk 3:26PM (10/10/2007)
Am I the only one who doesn't understand the appeal of a little pod that isolates you from EVERYTHING?
A pod inside your car, a pod on your boat, a pod that you drive around on the sidewalk and in buildings... you'd probably stay in your pod in your own house, at that rate.
No offense to injured people, but this seems worse, and dumber than using a wheelchair when you are healthy and don't need to. This also completely encapsulates people in any and all public situations. Who wants to be THAT isolated?
Maybe this is being geared to the completely imuno-suppressed people in the world, or something. I just don't get it otherwise.
This seems to me to be a fatally flawed premise.
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Nellydesign 4:51PM (10/10/2007)
Took the words right out of my fingers.
Worst... Concept... EVAR...
obie 6:11PM (10/10/2007)
i agree completely...these things are horribly ugly and need to be trashed
Tom Fjord 5:51PM (10/10/2007)
I would TOTALLY take my PIXY to the beach, and I would also put Hello Kitty stickers all over it. And soft, fuzzy pandas! Awesome!
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Greg 7:04PM (10/10/2007)
Aside from disliking these pod things the Japanese always seem to come up with... What exactly is going to be unveiled at the Tokyo auto show? Obviously not much, considering we have already seen dozens of new vehicles and concepts. I think all of these previews are really going to make the show pretty boring and already slightly outdated.
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Brody 4:43PM (7/11/2008)
i think it is cool. you could tow the boat with you and then once you are at the lake, you wouldent even have to get out. you would just drive yourself onto the boat
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