The Talking Tesla - Yanko Design - Davidson Foreplarks

Cars evolved in a way that the forepart of the auto started taking on confront-like qualities. The headlights were the eyes, and the radiator grill was the mouth. The shapes of these determined the expression of the motorcar and allowed them to fit into various categories. Smiling automobiles would become family cars, while aggressive or serious-faced cars would go on to become sports-cars or luxury sedans. So when Tesla decided that their model S would no longer contain a discernible radiator grill, it felt a lot like the car lost its oral fissure.

In order to return anthropomorphic qualities to the car, designer Steel Drake redesigned the Model S. The new concept, called the Model SD, features a rather different looking front detail. Between the two headlights, around a tiny triangular (Alfa Romero-ish) radiator grill lies the machine's new mouth. Taking inspiration from grill designs and marrying it with illumination, the car'south front end features an interactive inverted-mustache panel of lights that give the car its face-like quality again while too bringing something innovative to the table. The detail (nosotros'll call it the mouth) lights up on ignition, almost looking like an air-catamenia pattern. It even changes color, based on your driving mode and it'due south difficult to say if it would serve every bit an indicator as well, but I'd be rather impressed if it did… because that would literally mean the car's 'rima oris' could communicate!

Designer: Steel Drake