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Stained Glass Driverless Sleeper Car: Falling Asleep at the Wheel

British designer Dominic Wilcox recently unveiled his latest creation at the London Design Festival 2014. It's called the Stained Glass Driverless Sleeper Car and you can pretty much see that it's like a giant retro lampshade stretched over a small bed on wheels.
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His creation was exhibited at Dezeen and MINI Frontiers and was designed as part of Wilcox's vision of future mobility. Falling asleep at the wheel has never been cooler!

Beyond being a purely esthetic piece, the Sleep Car has a concept. In Wilcox's vision, the empty glass car travels to collect its tired passenger who has called it. He can then take a nape while he prepares for the journey ahead or let the driverless machine do its own thing and take him home.

We keen motorists would never give up the steering wheel and rarely feel like sleeping if an exiting turbo mills is at our fingertips. But wouldn't it be great if we could just sleep during the boring daily commute back home from work?

Middlesex University Product design Department assisted the British artist with crafting the base and the glass support structure, both of which are made from wood. The glass cuttings then have to be laid out in a fashion that should be familiar to any cathedral restorer. Why use glass? Because Dominic Wilcox believes our automotive behavior would be so much less dangerous if we all drove glass cars.
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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