Looking like a golf cart from the happy-acting society of Rollerball, Toyota also pulled the lid off their RiN concept car today. Designers intended this vehicle to exude "increased comfort" and "serene, healthy living."
The green glass of the Toyota RiN combines with its beige coloring to somehow make the complexion of the vehicle's passengers look better, while generating an overall positive outlook on life, according to Toyota. The company also claims the vehicle makes the driver and passengers feel more harmonious with the environment, thanks to sliding doors and low windows that make you one with nature.
The heated seats are about the only "normal" feature on the car, which also has an oxygen-level conditioner, pinpoint humidifier, and a "mood training" steering control that works with your psycholigical state to make you happier.
The RiN makes you healthier too, with seats that promote good back posture, and ultravlot and infrared blocking glass. RiN's designers were inspired by the Yakusugi tree, a type of Japanese cypress that is rooted deep in the ground, while always growing ever higher.
While it may be influenced by trees, it still seems more like a large, drivable Tamagotchi.
RiN
The RiN focuses on "increased comfort" and "serene, healthy living". Through their relationship to the vehicle, drivers are encouraged to reevaluate themselves and, furthermore, to turn their attention to society and nature, producing a healthy rhythm for both mind and body.
- Promotes a healthier well-being thanks to features such as seats that help maintain good back posture and image displays aligned with the driver's psychological state that are conveyed within the meter cluster of the "mood-training" steering control.
- In addition to featuring comfortable, heated seats, an oxygen-level conditioner and pinpoint humidifier, uses green glass that reduces infiltration of ultraviolet and infrared light and makes the surroundings seem brighter and clearer to increase cabin comfort.
- Creates a feeling of harmony with the surrounding environment by using sliding doors with a low window that lets you view nature at ground level, as well as headlights with light distribution control that take into consideration pedestrians and vehicles coming in the opposite direction.
- Uses the motif of the deep-rooted and tall-growing Yakusugi tree (a variety of Japanese cypress) for its exterior and interior design to express both "harmony with nature" and "healthy mind and body".
- Contrasts deep green with beige in its interior color scheme to richen the complexions of those onboard and evoke a healthy mental and physical feeling.
