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Wow, amazing concept. I love it. The design is great and the idea behind the wheel cover offers a real improvement!

Thanks for the feature, it looks great.

Just a note that the design is called the Scania concept as that was the brand i chose to design for, it has nothing to do with the Scania brand professionally. Thanks!

From the point of view of a cyclist, this thing still looks scary to me.

Over all I like the look of the design. The premise of the wheel hub speed/time information conveyance is certainly interesting. The flashing Red lights might confuse some drivers at night, particularly drivers approaching from the side in an intersection.
Curious, the design shows slats on the side of the truck to infer steps up to the cab. Are these slats meant to be stepped on by the edge of the foot climb into the cab? Or are they extendable steps that will protrude outwards? Or are they spring loaded covers to be pushed inwards with the foot to be used as steps? Where is the diesel fuel cap access located? On the back side of the cab where are the umbilical cord(s) to connect to the trailer? (Ex: Refrigerated trailer) How does the owner/operator access the engine for repairs?

cool design, much better than others ive seen

M.S.W, you have pointed out some interesting things there, the steps slide out to allow the driver access to the cab. On the renders i have left the umbilical cords off, i meant to put them on the model but did not get round to it, there in the same place, and will be hidden/tidied in a slide cover. The cab actually slides forward allowing access to the electric motor and engine, and the wheel covers are hinged to allow wheel maintenance. sorry if a lot of this is not described well in the images, i do have plenty of pictures to show things, and will be updating my personal website with them as soon as i can. Thanks for the feetback tho guys its much appreciated.

In my personal opinion, this is just putting lipstick on a pig. I mean, it’s great that it tries to address problems with trucks themselves and offers some features to keep the drivers in line. However, this still doesn’t solve the problem of trucks being big, heavy, and dangerous to maneuver around, and it doesn’t prevent truckers from signaling to each other to force traffic to their favor at everyone else’s expense.

I’d rather see freight rail systems be modernized and expanded, and the trucking industry legislated to Hell. I won’t be happy until there are literally no 18-wheelers left on the road whatsoever for any circumstances at all. Delivery trucks and cargo vans, well, they’re unfortunately necessary given that our modern lust for roadways basically precludes any other means of delivering goods on the scale they address, but at least their size is a little bit more sane.

great design , very beautifuk , i like it .

this truck looks amazing hope the real thing looks like this someday.
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The speedlimit thing is awful. The law is upheld by police not by selfmade police-privates on the road. Speedlimits are also broken mostly by private citizens so let’s put the speed-teller LEDs on ordinary private cars where they are mostly needed.
Or just build in a GPS in every vehicle that nows and reports how fast you drove on a certain road. Welcome 1984.

/P, former busdriver

Per, think ur missing the point. The police DO still upheld the law, it just allows them to identify that the law has been broken. And more than that, it works as a deterive to not break the law in the first place. The lights could well be used on normal vehicles, but that was not my project, i chose 2 create THIS project, a truck project, improve safety and change perception. thanks.

Adam, top job.

Really not a fan of “designers” and “Concepts” but this is awesome. only thing (as an engineer) we have to sort out is the coefficient of drag. these lorries are too fat – got to be thin and slippy!!

nice one.

Nicely designed vehicle, but the wheel cover thing has to go.

First of all, how does it turn with the wheels covered?

Second of all, who the heck would buy this vehicle knowing that it will tattle tale on him/her for every little thing they do wrong?

There are lots of privately owned tractor drivers out there and I can’t imagine them buying this, nor could I imagine anyone wanting to work for a company that uses them.

It’s a very innovative and creative solution to a “problem” and you should be proud. Unfortunately, it came at the expense of showing you weren’t thinking of your customer.

Wow, if this truck will dispatch with real logistics, then I would like to change my job career to driver in Europe.

It really looks amazing.

as long as theres no snow, ever.
That speed limit light is a bad idea…

See the truck designs by Luigi Colani alone.
They TOO are way Cool despite years.
Timeless shapes
Now add this trucks features to his Colanis trucks
See book COLANI.
For all designers, techhies & Tech Art buffs.
Classic shapes, last 100 years theyre that Good.
His truck design dates to 1977 & revised for 2002.

I agree with ‘J Dizzle’ on the wheel cover issue. Driving a truck that informs the general public of every minor offence could be irritating for the driver. I would say the speeding lights could perhaps have allowance for a certain amount of speeding. I.e. go off when the driver is a certain percentage over the limit. If they went off at 31mph in a 30mph zone it would perhaps be a little over the top.

I’d keep the lights for rest time however, as what this post doesn’t show is the interior with tv/videogames etc that are an incentive for the driver to rest regularly; however perhaps more comfort features could be incorporated?

Beautifully designed vehicle though.

The premise isn’t bad, but I see a few flaws: 1. I don’t know if you’ve ever unloaded a semi, but trust me, you want the trailer floor to be flat, and it appears in the pictures that it isn’t.
2. I’m guessing this would be an extremely expensive truck for the shipping companies to buy and I don’t see them having a reason to buy it over their old trucks which are still very reliable and for them, get the job done great.

On another note, the wheel covers have to go. Trucks driving through mountains burn up their brakes all the time, and the wheel covers will severely limit the airflow over the brakes that cool them.

LED lights that point out if it’s speeding or driving over regulated times?

Let me ask you people something…. Have you ever seen (or been) that annoying person in the grocery store that bitches to the employees because they are out of stock of something that they obviously have no control over? The friendly employee states to no avail that the truck is late, but they will have no part in hearing that. It’s horrible that they should have to wait another 4 hours to come back and get their eggs.

The designers and the people who support this obviously have no idea what it’s like on the road. Get used to hearing more of those types in any store you go to if this system is ever brought into practical use.

Trucking is the backbone of this country’s economy any way you look at it. If they aren’t allowed to do their jobs properly (not regulated, but properly) every single person that thought this was a good idea will soon start to see what happens when truckers are hampered even more than the ways they already are.

Thanks for the comments. The vehicle is a concept, you are right, although i think you are a little too quick to jump to the conclusions that it should be ready for production right now, if only it was that simple. little naive to think that as a student i could have designed a whole project to ready made level. The concept is developed to impress and provoke a reaction, it is then tamed down and legislation is looked into more strictly.

I did write a technical report which was graded to a very high level, addressing in that report the issues the vehicle would have in production TODAY, however the vehicle is not designed for today it is for 7-10 years time. The windows are not tinted, they are based on polymer dispersed liquid crystal window technology, current legislation would not allow them however technology may very well improve and legislation may allow, if not, a standard window may be used.

Everybody knows that the design is not ready for production right now, but not everybody points out the obvious.

As for placing the LEDs somewher else, it would not be that big a problem, theres is enough visible space on the exterior of a truck to host some LEDs and the idea has creative enough of a stir in the design circle to justify me putting them on my concept!

And the wheel covers are a new idea, they will have problems, but there will be ways to improve the idea of replace it.

Think your getting too serious about the project, it was my final year degree project its not a real Scania concept, you are not seeing the entire project from this article and a lot of your questions would be answered if you looked into it properly.

Criticism is more than welcome as it improves design, but pointless comments that are obviously trivial attempts to put a design down are not productive to any designer and it frustrates me to see it on other peoples work, let alone my own.

Thanks.

Looks like it would work if the truck were traveling straight down the road.. but how does it turn? Normally the front wheels are exposed to provide clearance for the tires during a turn. This design looks like it would pop the wheel covers off the first time you turned a corner. Am I missing something here?