In this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which took place in Las Vegas, new gadgets, gizmos, and driverless vehicles were featured to more than 150,000 people from 170 countries. The event took place for four days, and it was no surprise that the driverless vehicles grabbed everyone's attention. The car that made an appearance first was the Mercedes F 015 Luxury. It had inward facing seats, set around a little coffee table, LED displays front and back to communicate with other drivers, and gesture recognition, so it can be controlled with body movements. Because most people enjoy driving, the car still featured a steering wheel.
The Mercedes was not the only model shown in the convention. Audi had a car that can arrive to pick up its driver at a touch of a button on a smart watch. Nissan also announced it was teaming up with Nasa to work on the technology too. Lastly, BMW executive Dr. Werner Huber said fully autonomous cars were still some years away, but it would be beneficial to have a robot as a co-driver in the meantime. To learn more about the convention, click on the link provided below.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/09/ces-roundup-superchips-driverless-cars-drones
This is really interesting. I wonder how long it will be until these become available to the public.
ReplyDeleteIs this technology at all related to the semi-autonomous car Tesla released towards the end of 2014?
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