strolling past nissan’s showroom in ginza today i saw an interesting concept reminiscent of the R2D2 + X-wing co-driving model: a ‘future car’ with a robot (similar to papero) embedded in the dashboard as a kind anthropomorphic GPS, a co-pilot, and in any case better than a totally self-driving car because it has a face you can slap. oh, and the car is called the pivot – or pivo2 – because all of the wheels turn independently, blah blah blah…