In Las Vagas in January 2010 general motors of GM test drove a new electric cars that looked like colorful eggs. This car holds two passengers. Parking with this car may be easy because of its small build but how easy. Well this car can self park. Also when you need it, it will come right to you with one easy click of a button on your cellphone. How cool! This car is called the EN-V pronounced envy.
Now scientists are researching to if newer cars will do more complex things. For example,reminding you when to take your medication, sending you a text when your car needs to be charged or, connecting to other devises. also it even 'talks" to other cars to insure pedestrians and other cars are safe on the road. lastly these cars save energy.
Now scientists are researching to if newer cars will do more complex things. For example,reminding you when to take your medication, sending you a text when your car needs to be charged or, connecting to other devises. also it even 'talks" to other cars to insure pedestrians and other cars are safe on the road. lastly these cars save energy.
Google you may know of as the Internet search bar on your computer but, it also has scientists researching into these types of cars. They even invented six cars that can drive around surfactantly enough to have them drive all over the world to see if they worked. All that the driver did was give it direction to where it wanted the car to take them and check out the cars to make sure they worked well enough.“People who see our technology understand its potential to make driving safer and cut down on traffic,” says Sebastian Thrun, the engineer and computer scientist in charge of Google’s self-driving car program. That being said google is very much into safety of the people.Neither of these cars have been released because of safety concerns but cars by ford and other companies have been released that can parallel park by themselves.
At Massachusetts institute of technology or MIT scientists have invented an AIDA also known as affective intelligent driving assistant. This white robot sits in your car gives you directions and can cheer you up because it can tell when you are in a bad mood. Also it can detect when a car accident has occurred or there is a lot of traffic it will give you faster directions for you to get to the place you want to go.
Platzer a scientist got in a car named Boss built by his colleagues and Carnegie Mellon. “Right after the start signal, Boss hit the gas and rocketed forward, and I felt a bit like [I was] in a roller coaster. Only those are safe, because they simply follow the tracks,” he says. “Boss didn’t have any tracks to follow…. The curve came closer and closer, yet Boss still didn’t hit the brakes. It actually didn’t hit the brakes until long after I would have. That was a rather odd feeling.”
1) Do you think that for kids who are 11 now will get their drivers licenses before the robot cars?
2) If one of these cars came out would you buy one? Why or why not?
