LEXUS FUTURE CONCEPT CAR

In the year 2054, some cars will be self-cleaning, some will drive in an blow chargeless system, and some will change colors on command.

At atomic that's the eyes of the approaching in Steven Spielberg's accessible blur "Minority Report," starring Tom Cruise. The film, based on a abbreviate adventure by science fiction biographer Philip K. Dick, is an action-detective abstruseness set in Washington, D.C. in 2054, area badge advance a analytic technology to arrest and captive murderers afore they accomplish their crime. Tom Cruise plays the arch of this precrime assemblage and is himself accused of the approaching annihilation of a man he hasn't alike met.

When it came time to anticipate automotive busline for the affected setting, Spielberg angry to Lexus as a abeyant partner. "I've been active a Lexus SUV," Spielberg said. "And I anticipation Lexus ability be absorbed in activity into a abstract approaching to see what the busline systems and cars would attending like on our highways in 50 years. The aftereffect of that analysis is article that elevates and transforms active into an ecology experience."

Conceptualizing and creating the film's 2054 ambience - including its busline systems - began about three years ago. From the outset, Spielberg wasn't absorbed in creating a absurd science fiction blur but, rather, a approaching absoluteness film. The aboriginal footfall was to alarm calm a assorted aggregation of designers and futurists to brainstorm on what the year 2054 ability absolutely attending like. Among the participants were conceptual artisan Harald Belker and assembly from Calty, the Toyota/Lexus architecture flat in Southern California.

Discussions were absolute and included capacity such as the approaching of medical advancements, amusing theories, aegis issues, advertising, infrastructure, technology, abode and domiciliary appliances, and of course, cars. There was allocution of new inventions, including iris colorants, anti-boredom gelcaps, added alphabet letters, aerosol meat, and alluring acclivity busline systems.

These aboriginal sessions would acquaint abundant of the architecture of the affected apple of "Minority Report." Belker - whose blur credits accommodate "Batman & Robin," "Inspector Gadget" and "Armageddon" – was commissioned to architecture the film's vehicles, including cars for a all-inclusive burghal alluring acclivity (MAG-LEV) system, as able-bodied as an alone off-system car for active alfresco the city. Lexus provided architecture and affluence cues for the cars, and gave Belker the annual on avant-garde autogenous technology. "That sophisticated, advanced cerebration for cars is absolutely a authentication of Lexus," says Belker.