Hasta La Ideas

Nothing crushes the exhilirating experience of driving a fast car quicker than hearing that siren, then glancing up to see flashing red and blue lights steadily getting larger in your rearview mirror. It’s undoubtedly much more fun to see a police car on the sheet of paper or computer monitor in front of you, where it’s coming out of your pen or your Wacom. Those who agree will dig the theme of this year’s industry-only L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge: To envision a police car of the future.

Though the brief calls for highway patrol vehicles in the year 2025, it also calls for vehicles that can “effectively navigate dynamic urban environments,” perhaps explaining why Mercedes’ Ener-G-Force concept looks more like an off-roader:

Honda’s concept is multi-faceted, consisting of wicked-looking motorcycle units…

…a copter…

…that deploys this beast…

…inside which an officer can remotely have the motorcycles, in pilot-less “Drone Squad” mode, do his bidding:

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