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 yobaba rated 7 months ago- In the teenager-teeming Harajuku neighborhood here, Nissan Motor Co. designers have dreamed up a bubble of a car that drives sideways and comes equipped with a talking robot and another meant more for hanging out than getting places. They are trying to woo some of the world's toughest customers...
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- yobaba rated 7 months ago
- In the teenager-teeming Harajuku neighborhood here, Nissan Motor Co. designers have dreamed up a bubble of a car that drives sideways and comes equipped with a talking robot and another meant more for hanging out than getting places. They are trying to woo some of the world's toughest customers: young Japanese, who have fallen out of love with the automobile.
One could only hope (these kids have fallen out of love with automobile ownership); it is ridiculous for every person to own and drive a car in a country that has one of the best mass transit systems in the world.
- Organicpicks rated 7 months ago
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This is an interesting phenomenon. From the page: "Unlike their parents' generation, which viewed cars as the passport to freedom and higher social status, the Internet-connected Japanese youths today look to cars with indifference, according to market research by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association and Nissan. Having grown up with the Internet, they no longer depend on a car for shopping, entertainment and socializing and prefer to spend their money in other ways."
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