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Renault’s vision of the future is this autonomous floating pod

"The car of the future" can take numerous shapes depending on who you ask, but according to Renault, this could be it. This interesting-looking collection pod is the winner of the company's most recent design competition, and is named 'The Float' due to its magnetic levitation propulsion system.

The winning design was submitted by Yuchen Cai, a 23-year-old student from Shanghai graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design. Her entry looks like a bubble when it's on the move. Instead of using anything as archaic as wheels, it floats using maglev (magnetic levitation) technology, giving it the ability to move in any direction at any time.