Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), wanted to produce cars whose front bumper would be retractable, according to an invention patent filed in 2015, and registered only now. You can see in the image below what this retractable bar looks like that the people from Apple thought for implementation in cars, the technology being interesting.
Apple thought of a retractable element that would take out the front bumper of a car, or retract it inside the body, a balloon to facilitate its expansion and withdrawal. The balloon and a spring would be hidden in the body, the retractable bar would reduce the length of the car when needed, and would offer additional protection in case of impact.
It's hard to say how the appearance of the car would look in the real world with a bar that could be retracted or extended, according to the driver's wishes, the implementation not being too simple. Even so, the engineers who developed cars for the Apple company had very bold ideas, but apparently, they are almost impossible to put into practice.
A vehicle includes a body portion, an opening defined by the body portion, and an extendable bumper that is positioned in the opening and is movable with respect to the body portions between an extended position and a retracted position. The extendable bumper includes an inflatable structure that causes movement of the extendable bumper between the retracted position and the extended position in response to inflation and deflation of the inflatable structure.
