"Could car design disappear, like design has disappeared on phones?" As a rhetorical question for a car designer to ask, it's a bit of an existential one. Especially a designer who's designed one of the very things he fears might be responsible for the death blow: an autonomous electric pod-lounge. This is Samuel Chuffart, head of design at Icona. We'll come to them in a moment.

"Could car design disappear, like design has disappeared on phones?" As a rhetorical question for a car designer to ask, it's a bit of an existential one. Especially a designer who's designed one of the very things he fears might be responsible for the death blow: an autonomous electric pod-lounge. This is Samuel Chuffart, head of design at Icona. We'll come to them in a moment.