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to main content  In 2007, the team presented a car and the
c,mm,n concept at the Dutch car show, the AutoRAI. (Jacco
Lammers)  Looking to the future  Designing a car without
boundaries Add to ...  The cars of the future will have little
to do with horsepower, size or style. But they will have
everything to do with getting where you need to go.  And that
idea of smart mobility is at the core of a Web-based,
international car design project that aims to redefine our
relationship with the automobile.  The c,mm,n project - which
refers to "common" and "community" and is an attempt to
distinguish outlandish concept cars from vehicles that meet
specific needs - began in the Netherlands in 2005.  Stichting
Natuur en Milieu (the Netherlands Society for Nature and
Environment) asked the three technical universities in that
European country to develop what it called an "innovative
mobility concept" or, as Maarten van Biezen, manager, mobility,
for Stichting