The seat hinges remind me of those early Microsoft Surface multilink hinges, although on second look are clearly different.<p>The drawer trunk might be an improved solution to the trunk challenge of the Kammback form [1], which often becomes a hatchback but sometimes results in a smallish trunk hatch like the Audi A7. It probably is not as crashworthy insofar as packaging squish-space though.<p>A big miss is the steering wheel. Reaching through the wheel to the horn seems difficult. It's also been done before on various Citroens. I would have liked to see something more interesting using a mechanism like a Sbarro centerless wheel. [2, 3]<p><i>Enter the hinge. Or, as Microsoft dubbed it, the dynamic fulcrum hinge. The connective tissue between the Surface Book’s base and display is an isopod-like piece of aluminum that flexes back and forth thanks to four rotational points. It’s “almost like a carpet that rolls out,” Groene says.</i> [0]<p>0. <a href="https://www.wired.com/2015/10/story-behind-surface-books-crazy-new-hinge/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/2015/10/story-behind-surface-books-cra...</a><p>1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Kammback" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Kammback</a><p>2. <a href="http://sbarro.phcalvet.fr/technique/roue_orbitale/roue_orbitalegb.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://sbarro.phcalvet.fr/technique/roue_orbitale/roue_orbit...</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Centreless_wheel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Centreless_wheel</a><p>3. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_(automobile)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_(automobile)</a>