Cars of the future could evolve and mutate "like biology"
Channel: Dezeen
Date: 2014-09-22

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explains how cars made from biological materials could change and adapt to their environments.

"I'm working with synthetic biologists at Imperial College London, thinking about a synthetic biological car," Ginsberg says. "The exciting part for me is how the material of a MINI might change in a synthetic biological future and how that might change the way we interact and own a car. Does it start to take on design principles that are more like biology, more like evolution, with diversity and mutation?" 

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