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GMC has come up with an answer to the rising costs of fuel and rent -- the GMC PAD. Created for the California Design Challenge, the PAD is a cell city loft supposed to ease the difficulties of living in Southern California. The way forward for Motor Houses. See more pictures of concept cars. As an alternative of renting from a landlord and paying the usually sky-excessive SoCal rent rates, the owner of a PAD simply lives in it, and makes his home wherever he occurs to be parked. To get to work, the PAD owner just parks his "cell city loft" close to the office and walks, avoiding the necessity of commuting on clogged highways. Better nonetheless, he can use the PAD's on-board technology to work instantly from inside the PAD itself. The PAD is a excessive-tech motor residence made for residing in full-time, not only for weekend trips. It is filled with the newest communications gear and amenities, which is why GMC calls it a Living Exercise Car, or LAV.



The GMC PAD doesn't truly exist, nevertheless. General Motors' Superior Design Workforce created it for the California Design Challenge, a contest held on the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Present. The theme for the challenge was "An L.A. Adventure." Ten different companies, including Hyundai, Scion, Maybach, Mercedes-Benz and Audi, came up with ideas to replicate the large number of actions out there in Southern California. A panel of design specialists gave first place to the GMC PAD. Statistics in regards to the PAD are exhausting to come by, since it solely exists as a computer design. It's comparable in measurement to a fashionable motor dwelling -- in fact, it's probably shorter than some of the massive motor homes on the market. It appears very huge, however for sensible purposes, it cannot be any wider than a normal site visitors lane. Specific weight numbers will not be accessible, although it would doubtless be comparable to a standard motor home. A 25-foot motor house weighs about 10,000 lbs.



300-horsepower engine. House-age supplies corresponding to composites might scale back the weight, but the burden of the communications equipment could compensate for that savings. The PAD consists of DirecTV, OnStar and XM Satellite WiFi. Which means customers would have constant entry to more than 100 Tv channels, high-pace wireless Web, and a wide range of OnStar services, including automobile diagnostics, emergency help, and traffic, journey and weather data. You would not need to work very laborious to seek out that data, either. The inside partitions of the PAD are lined with large LCD screens. To keep everything running smoothly, GMC says that the PAD has "a teraflop of on-board memory." This doesn't make much sense, since a teraflop is a measure of computational pace quite than Memory Wave Experience capability. Maybe the PAD has on-board computer systems that may run at one teraflop. Or they might have meant "terabyte." Alternatively, perhaps the PAD can make the Kessel Run in underneath 12 parsecs, too.



If kicking again and watching a DVD on a large LCD display isn't stress-free sufficient, the aft portion of the PAD is a "personal spa." This includes a kitchen area with a "full suite of PAD-particular appliances created by Thermador," and other options created by Kohler. Whether or not this includes a working shower and bathroom is not indicated, however we are able to assume they're there. Saving on a monthly rent fee is not any massive assist if you're stuck paying a whole bunch of dollars for fuel every week. For that motive, PAD was designed to operate effectively with the latest energy technologies. A Diesel-Electric hybrid engine powers the PAD in each LiveMode and DriveMode. A fully computerized resource management system allows the PAD to wring each last drop out of gas and potable water provides, with the projected time between refills lasting weeks or months. To complement vitality calls for, six sq. meters of photovoltaic cells cowl the highest of the PAD, charging on-board batteries with energy collected from the sun.



The computers also control the suspension, giving the PAD a clean, simple ride and leveling it out robotically in LiveMode. Because the PAD was created purely as a design undertaking, it isn't essentially meant to be a practical vehicle. GMC has absolutely no plans to supply a prototype PAD, much less a manufacturing version on the market to most of the people. But what would the GMC PAD be like if it did exist? It will in all probability cost a bundle, for one factor. New high-end motor properties can value within the vary of $800,000 to $1 million, and models which might be more modest can nonetheless reach $250,000. The PAD is actually a high-finish machine, with its "infotainment" devices, LCD screens, photo voltaic cells and hybrid engine. At minimum, its worth must be a few hundred thousand dollars. You'd should live in it for a few years to make up that distinction in rent savings, and that does not take under consideration gasoline prices or considerations about the place you'd park your PAD.