Aito vehicles' manufacturer Seres patents hidden in-car toilet design, sparking debates

https://carnewschina.com/2026/04/14/aito-vehicles-manufacturer-seres-patents-hidden-in-car-toilet-design-sparking-debates/

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Hubi@feddit.org · 18 pts · 132d (3 replies)

Psh, Rolls Royce had this in the 1950s.

pqh@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 132d (2 replies)

That’s a wine bottle cooler not a toilet.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 132d

Challenge accepted.

Hubi@feddit.org · 7 pts · 132d

Apparently it was both:

Under the back seat was a toilet that was mostly used to keep the champagne chilled

https://www.coachbuild.com/index.php/encyclopedia/coachbuilders-models/item/vignale-rolls-royce-silver-wraith-1954

"May I interest you in a glass of my toilet wine?"

comador@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 132d (4 replies)

What a shitty idea... Imagine smelling that slosh around as you drive around corners.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 132d (1 reply)

A hot day with lots of errands but you forgot to clean it out the day before.

slowtrain33@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 132d

Name checks out

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 132d

That's why there is a window behind the driver.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 132d

Could always be railroad style and just dump out on the street.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 132d

China may solve the western world's housing crisis with cheap electric vehicles.

I keep thinking why are they building suv evs.

I guess, they could have been solving their own issue and the spillover from such a massive economy.

I'm down, it's closer to Snowcrash and, little mobile homes are cooler than storage units anyway.

0ops@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 132d

Everybody's laughing until they're holding back a dookie like orcs at the gates of Helm's Deep in a traffic jam

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 5 pts · 132d

Excellent. Because if someone crashes into me, I want to also nearly drown in their shit.

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d

Does China think they're Japan?