Stained Glass Driverless Sleeper Car of the Future

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20-21 Visual Arts Centre is delighted to exhibit Dominic Wilcox's Stained Glass Sleeper Car of the Future.

Made as part of an exhibition during London Design Week sponsored by BMW Mini, Dominic was asked to imagine how we will travel in 2059 - 100 years after the first MINI went into production.

He imagined the roads would be populated by computer controlled driverless cars. These will be far more safe than human drivers, making current safety requirements redundant; giving car designers total freedom to make vehicles out of whatever they choose. Working alongside makers at Middlesx University's Product Design department, he chose to make his car of the future out of stained glass.

The car joins other inventions by Dominic Wilcox that have been on display at 20-21 since March as part of his ‘Variations on Normal’ exhibition. 

"In the future it will be safer to drive in a driverless car than it will in a manual car," said Wilcox. "Therefore we don't need the protection systems that are built into contemporary cars. We can just have a shell of any design."

Dominic Wilcox is a designer whose devices, objects and drawings are ingenious and often amusing. He has worked with a diverse range of organisations including Paul Smith, Selfridges, the V&A Museum and Jaffa Cakes.