Merc Cyborg

The Mercedes-Benz C.S.V. (Cyborg Sensation Vehicle) is a concept car imagined by Chinese designer Derek Chik Kin Ng. Inspired by the Mercedes-Benz F400 concept, this off-road capable 2-seater is targeted to young adventurous professionals in 2040.

The interesting part about this Mercedes-Benz concept is that it has no steering wheel, no pedals, but this vehicle can be controlled with the power of mind instead. It uses a system named Brain Computer Interface (BCI), which creates a connection between the car and its driver, through a specially-designed helmet.

This way, the driver’s brain impulses are gathered by the helmet and transferred to the car, which responds appropriately. Although this principle may sound plausible in the future, its implementation on cars, could prove to be quite a difficult task. The implications for such technologies means someday we’ll know how to interpret,  map out, and respond to human neural patterns.

If you can put that thought aside for a second, lets focus on the design. There’s a lot of F400 in there but the designer wanted to give the vehicle an organic flavor, hence the muscle fibers flanking each side, neatly tucking into a hidden skeletal system. The result is a design that takes Mercedes Benz DNA and evolves it into an organic object mimicking its pilot.