Gallery: Forget Faraday Future's Crazy Concept Car. It Has Bigger Plans
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Faraday Future has big plans to change the auto industry.
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The California-based startup says it can produce vehicles in a fraction of the time automakers usually take.
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At CES this month, it showed off the FFZero1, a fully bonkers concept.
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In the car, the driver’s seat is at a 45-degree angle to the ground.
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There’s a smartphone embedded in the steering wheel.
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But the concept hardly delivers on Faraday’s promise to change the industry with unprecedented speed and new ideas.
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What really matters is what Faraday calls its variable platform architecture.
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The idea is to build all its vehicles around the same basic skeleton, so you don’t need to go back to the start each time you think up a new car.
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It says it will use one platform for everything from, say, a two-seat commuter car to a three-row crossover.
