Electro_wink

Electriquette - exploring unfolding techno-social situations, inviting new forms of better relationship between vehicles and the world around them

Unlocking connected vehicle’s behavioral potential, inviting new forms vehicle’s social presence & positive social energy. 

Comparing how technology transforms our world, vehicles today are emotionally and behaviorally constipated. They often insulate our humanity and collaborative potential.

How do we prepare people to enter the connected car’s ecosystems?

We need to start a new language.

We need a way to say “hello world”.

We need a spark.

Electro_wink is a greeting, a mischievous acknowledgement. It is an introduction to a new language of connected cars.

A new social communication gesture, expressed by the exchange of mischievous short blink of one headlight and triggered autonomously when two electric cars are approaching each other * / or initiated by a driver.

* under predefined conditions (speed, direction, no turn signal indicator on, etc.)