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Monday, March 9, 2015

Mercedes Paraded Their Driverless Concept Car.

The future of driving is here and it involves not a lot more than getting in the car and just chilling out.
Mercedes have decided to parade their brand new driver-less car all around San Francisco and the locals are absolutely loving it.
The Mercedes F-015 self-drive concept car was announced last year but is finally making its debut on the road.
Wired magazine thinks Mercedes are filming some kind of promotional video about the car but are unclear as to whether there may actually have been people inside the car or not.
It’s also missing things like side-view mirrors that are mandated by federal regulations, so our guess is that it’s not a legitimate, government-sanctioned test vehicle, but something closer to a film prop. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.Wired
The car is nicknamed "Luxury in Motion" and people are excited Mercedes are already thinking about the future of car design.
Once computers are unarguably better drivers than we are and regulations reflect that, longstanding norms like forward-facing seats, mirrors, and pedals will go out the (opaque grey) window. It will be a seismic shift, and automakers will be free to pursue exciting, even revolutionary, ideas.Wired
The F-015 has spinning seats for when the 'driver' wants to chat more freely with their passengers and is controlled through hand gestures, eye-tracking and touchscreens.
Everything is LED and when the car senses a pedestrian ahead, will project a crosswalk onto the ground.
Twenty years from now we'll be calling these cars up to give us a lift home after a night out.

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