Smart car designed by Google dispenses steering wheel and follows routes via smartphone
100 units will be produced for testing. They should give users more safety and comfort.
Vehicles that drive alone seem like a fictional thing, don't they? But the newest technology being developed by Google is an electric car that has no steering wheel, clutch, brake or driver.
The prototype, which has two seats, is a car connected to the user's smartphone. It follows routes delimited by the device and respects traffic through pedestrian and other vehicle identification sensors.
The dashboard, instead of having thousands of functions, has only two buttons: one to turn the car on and one to turn off the car in an emergency. In short, just enter and establish the route that the car will take you to your destination without any additional effort.
With a battery that has a range of 160 km, the vehicle can reach 40 km/h and is only intended to circulate in urban areas.
One of the ideas behind the company's initiative aims to reduce the number of traffic accidents, increasing passenger comfort. “We will be working with partners to bring this technology to the world safely in the coming years,” says Chris Urmson, Google's project director.
If you're excited by the idea, you'll have to wait a while. Only 100 units of the vehicle will be produced for testing. It is projected that they could be used to replace taxis in the future.
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Source: EcoD
