Based on the Lotus Elise, the Rinspeed sQuba made its debut at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show and is the world’s first real submersible car. It is also the first car that likely requires both a valid driver’s license and scuba certification to operate.
The sQuba has a steel chassis with carbon nano tubes for body panels. Three electric motors, stationed in the rear of the vehicle, take the place of a combustion engine. One does the work on land, and the other two do the work under water, and they get added support from a pair of Seabob jet drives at the front of the vehicle.
It is a permanent convertible—for good reasons: an enclosed cabin presents safety issues when the car submerges, and the air in that cabin would create too much buoyancy to reasonably overcome under water. According to Rinderknecht, two cubic meters of cabin air required a two-ton increase in vehicle weight, “giving the sQuba the land mobility of a turtle."
The laser driving. The sQuba solves the problem of drivers falling asleep on the road by permitting autonomous driving—Ibeo of Hamburg developed a laser sensor system that allows the occupants to catch some shut-eye and still reach their destination.
Cool concept, but I don't think it's going to be cheap.
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