Aside from being cleaner and quieter, the cars and the event itself would be showcases for vanguard technologies.
The brief asked designers to conceive a "Ferrari of the Third Millennium" a hypercar reflecting speed, the use of lightweight materials and vanguard technologies.
For all the real-world vanguard technologies packed inside, this magic bus may remain parked in the realm of fantasy.
"We are out here on the vanguard of technology," Mr. Fuentes said in his bar, a tourist haunt with tiki lights and salsa tunes.
"He has kept the Westchester Library System in the vanguard of technology, and has been a strong supporter of residents' First Amendment values," said Nancy Kranich, the departing president of the association and a former associate dean of libraries at New York University.
The squad is a corps of student volunteers, a modern-day version of the A.V. teams that used to fix the slide projectors back when audio-visual equipment was the vanguard of technology in schools.
Amazon is in the vanguard of where technology wants to take the modern office: more nimble and more productive, but harsher and less forgiving.
But they also represent the vanguard of car technology and, with only two models on the road until recently, they were unquestionably exotic.
The band, formed in Düsseldorf at the start of the 1970s by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, were at the vanguard of using technology to produce music.
Now Trent Reznor, lead singer in a band at the vanguard of bringing technology into the music industry, plans to take things a step further, creating an app that will transform the experience of being a Nine Inch Nails fan.
Hanging near it are others showing cars in front of ocean liners, trains and airplanes in an effort to persuade consumers that the latest year's model was in the vanguard of modern technology.
