Have you ever wanted to have a business meeting while lying down and travelling at 120 km/hr? Or ever got bored of driving and just wanted to let go of the wheel, spin yourself around and watch a movie on a 32-inch telly, while your armrest dispenses you coffee? No, me neither actually, but some people obviously have, as visitors to the Geneva Motor Show discovered this week.

Heralded as the long-awaited “office and living room on wheels”, the XchangE autonomous electric vehicle is billed as the future of driverless, connected personal transportation, taking the form of a Tesla model S, pimped up to the standards of a slightly naff business-class cabin.

The brainchild of Swiss automotive dream factory Rinspeed, the concept car is kitted out with special seats, developed by a medical prosthetics manufacturer, that tilt into more than 20 different configurations, as if you ever needed that many ways to sit down. Now your passenger can face you and be even more distracting, or you can swap over and face them – or you can both swivel round and face the same way. Unfortunately for the amorous couple in the promo video, the seats don’t quite turn into a double bed, but that is surely the next step for a car that seems to be promoted as a 21st-century love wagon.

The dashboard itself is stripped away and replaced with a 1.2m-wide screen, home to the “scalable infotainment platform”, which is linked to online data sources and can speak to other cars to create “travel-specific cloud services”, giving traffic warnings and route directions. In the video, our glamorous duo are warned of construction works 500m ahead, so they can take the slip road and glide smugly past the luddites in their stupid old cars, stuck in nose-to-tail traffic.

Not only that, but when you get tired of driving, you can slide the steering wheel across to your passenger, who will hopefully be facing the right way and not engrossed in the infotainment platform, and let them take over. The TRW steering wheel uses steer-by-wire technology, similar to that found in jet aircraft, which dispenses with a mechanical steering column, and includes hands-on recognition and fancy transparent keys that glow with ambient lighting, so you can pretend you’re in Knightrider.

Sit back and relax … The intelligent operating system means that no-one has to have their hands on the wheel. Although maybe she wishes he did. Photograph: Rinspeed Photograph: Rinspeed

To ensure you get the right mood for driving through that Martian landscape or past that desolate swamp, there are 358 individually controlled LEDs fitted throughout the cabin, along with another 98 in the instrument panel. Just be careful your lighting combo doesn’t clash with the interior upholstery, the swathes of merino wool and silk designed in blue and grey tones “to evoke a maritime aesthetic”.

For such a high-tech concoction, the most bizarre feature of all is a wind-up watch, which sits imprisoned in a mysterious crystal dome above the steering wheel, bringing the permanent glamour of the duty-free trolley to your very own car. It is, the designers proudly declare, “arguably the world’s most expensive watch-winder,” and perhaps also the most pointless: when the car is stationary, the globe spins to wind up the mechanical watch movement – driven by an electric motor.