{"id":1892366,"date":"2026-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1892366"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:00:00","slug":"a-chinese-carmaker-has-patented-an-in-car-toilet-wait-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1892366","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese carmaker has patented an in-car toilet. Wait, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>We\u2019ve checked the calendar, and April Fools\u2019 Day has definitely been and gone. And that\u2019s slightly worrying, because we\u2019ve just discovered that Chinese carmaker Seres has been granted a patent for an in-car toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, its application for an in-car khazi was actually filed all the way back in April 2025, but it was eventually authorised on 10 April this year. We really hope its designers used that year to come up with clever names for the system. Auto Potty? Drive\u2019n\u2019dump? If this was a Porsche creation, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it was inexplicably christened the Travel Turd Turbo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>Anyway, we\u2019re told the patented setup includes a sliding toilet body that extends out from under the driver\u2019s seat. But here\u2019s the best bit\u2026 you can reveal the dunny using the car\u2019s voice control system. Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>The little loo then slides back under the seat once you\u2019ve finished your business, and we\u2019re told there\u2019s a heater to dry up waste, plus a fan and exhaust system to release the smells. Don\u2019t go tailgating an Aito 9 any time soon, is all we\u2019ll say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>\u201cIntelligence redefining luxury\u201d is the Seres motto, but is a mobile potty in your car a vision of luxury, or is it just total crap?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve checked the calendar, and April Fools\u2019 Day has definitely been and gone. And that\u2019s slightly worrying, because we\u2019ve just discovered that Chinese carmaker Seres has been granted a patent for an in-car toilet. Yep, its application for an in-car khazi was actually filed all the way back in April 2025, but it was eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1892366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}