This may be the future of your car – ABC News

A number of the world’s automakers are working intensively with technology that effectively can make the cars completely self-executing. Here there is an ongoing real race, which naturally does not become less demanding of the technology giant Google has also signed up.

They have long tested self-driving cars home in the United States and can be a tough competitor for the established automotive, if they decide to not only invest in technology part of this.

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Transition Period

There is already sold several car models, which in practice could be entirely self-executing, among them Tesla Model S and the new Mercedes E-class. But unlike legislation, makes you have placed barriers which in practice means that the driver must have control of the car.

This is still only talking about a transitional period. The completely self-driving cars are coming, and then it can also be talk about big changes inside the cars.

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The steering wheel is both unnecessary and in the way when the car will drive itself, therefore Rinspeed gone for a retractable solution in this concept car.

Retractable wheel

Among the equipment then becomes quite redundant, is one of the most important car today: Namely the wheel. Several automakers are working on solutions where the wheel will be retractable. It can be extracted and used when or if needed. But in everyday use, it is integrated into the dashboard, so that frees up space in front of the driver.

The concept car ethos from Rinspeed (pictures) is one example of how it can be done.

The bottom line is to clean up most of the interior and exploit the extra space you then can get.

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dropped wheel completely

Traditionally, automotive been very conservative when it comes to changes like this. But here too, the trend instantly. It is enough to mention Tesla huge inforskjerm center console which attracted enormous attention when it arrived.

Now, a number of car manufacturers come after similar solutions.

Here is also Google into. They have completely dropped the wheel of his famous pod car. It can quickly make that many carmakers hanging on, if only as the fear of working for traditional and old-fashioned.

There is hardly overnight but developments go fast and for automotive applies more than ever time to hang out with the bends. With or without steering wheel.

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