{"id":92007,"date":"2024-09-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92007"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:24:48","slug":"seloc-editorial-theory-1-puts-the-driver-back-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/seloc-editorial-theory-1-puts-the-driver-back-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory 1 puts the driver back in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus unveiled Theory 1 in September 2024 with the driver in the middle and a passenger on either side. That gives the driver the same view of both front corners, at least in principle. It also gives the designers an awkward question to solve: how do you get into the middle seat in a narrow garage?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9a\/Lotus_Theory_1_001.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus Theory 1 concept photographed in 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Lotus Theory 1 concept photographed in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lotus_Theory_1_001.jpg\">JustAnotherCarDesigner \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lotus also used the concept to explore haptic cues and a cabin with fewer conventional controls. A cue you can feel through the seat might be useful if it saves a glance at a screen. The test is whether you still know what it means in the rain, on a rough road, with a passenger talking to you.<\/p>\n<p>Theory 1 was a development exercise. The question is how much of it you\u2019d want in a car you use every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A central seat is the easy bit to spot on Theory 1. The controls are the more interesting experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-news","category-seloc-editorial-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92072,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92007\/revisions\/92072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}