Page 51 - Biomimetics: Technology Imitates Nature

Harun Yahya

Plants and New Car Design

When designing its new ZIC (Zero Impact Car)
model, the Fiat motor company copied the way trees
and shrubs divide themselves into branches.
Designers built a small channel along the middle of
the car, in a similar way as in a plant's stem, and
placed in that channel batteries to provide the car with
the energy it requires. The car seats were inspired by the plant
in the illustration and, just as in that original plant, the seats
were attached directly to the channel. The car’s roof
featured a honeycomb structure similar to that in
seaweed. This structure made the ZIC both light
and strong. 41
In a field like automobile technology that
Seaweed
freely displays the very latest innovations, a sim-
ple plant, living in nature since the very first day it
came into being thousands of years ago, provided
engineers and designers with a source of inspira-
tion. Evolutionists—who maintain that life came
about by chance and whose forms developed over
time, always moving in the direction of improve-
ment—find this and similar events difficult to
accept.
How can human beings, possessed
of consciousness and reason, learn
from plants—devoid of any intelli-
gence or knowledge, which can-
not even move—and imple-
ment what they learn to
achieve ever more practical
results? The features that
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