Stella Clarke’s bicycle commute in Munich provided the perfect isolation to generate ideas and create a chameleon for the German vehicle maker.
It’s 13 kilometres from Garching, a suburb on the outskirts of Munich, to the BMW Group Research and Innovation Centre near the city’s centre. Dr Stella Clarke makes the two-way journey each day on her pushbike, sometimes through ice and snow.
Stella Clarke: “We defined how everything in the car felt, everything with a kinematic behind it, so every button, every gear shifter, every turning knob. There’s actually quite a bit of maths and physics there.”, attracted media attention worldwide. It could radically alter tomorrow’s cars. “We defined how everything in the car felt, everything with a kinematic behind it, so every button, every gear shifter, every turning knob. There’s actually quite a bit of maths and physics there.”
When she presented her progress six months later, she was given more time and more money. As she cycled each day, her idea expanded. What if the whole car could change colour, or flicker in different patterns? But is it just a clever tech trick? No, says Clarke, it’s all doable, and isn’t prohibitively expensive. An owner could change hues and patterns at will using a phone app, and the car could display messages – such as the percentage of the battery charge – when the driver approached.
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