Design challenges can get challenging at best, not if you are a designer over at Infiniti who showed off their Synaptiq concept at the recent 2014 LA Motorshow. Some have said it represents the 2029 look of Formula One but in reality it is merely a design study for a future if far-fetched, closed cockpit, racing series which would be held between LA and Las Vegas. Only this imagined race has a twist, the Synaptiq concept can transform, in theory, from a race car to a 4×4 off-road SUV. This is where things get a bit too Hollywood, direct-to-video for us. The car is also able to transform into an aerobatic aircraft. Perhaps the most surreal and perhaps most interesting part of this LA Motorshow Design Challenge entry was that the Synaptiq concept features no control system. Infiniti say the Synaptiq is controlled by a body suit which fuses with the user upon entering the cockpit enclosure, what Infiniti calls a Symbiotic User Interface, as long as there are no complex graphics to navigate that’s fine by us. The body suit idea is probably the least far-fetched and most achievable idea proposed because the basic core technology is out there. However autonomous vehicles are probably the real future.