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Nagai reportedly got his idea for piloting a robot from watching frustrated drivers in a traffic jam, imagining a car that could sprout arms and legs and walk over the other vehicles.

There are a few different things people look for in a car. Some look ... a car that turns into a robot and back again, just like those Autobots from that Transformers cartoon.