My car: Audi S4
The Mercedes-Robo car that made me want to stop driving.
The Mercedes-Robo car that made me want to stop driving.
Slide 1 15 Legend Legend The Mercedes F 015 is a concept car that predicts a world without human pilot Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 2 15 Legend Legend is a vision of what cars might in 2030 Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 3 15 Legend Legend In the current prototype, don t suicide doors work fine Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 4 15 Legend Legend But when opened, they drive home how a different concept is Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 5 15 Legends Legends The front seats can swivel to face the rear ones Christie Hemm wired Klok.
Slide 6 15 Legend Legend You can control your speed with one of the many touch screens, slide the car between relaxed and dynamic Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 7 15 Legend Legend The steering wheel retracts into the table minimalist edge when not in use Christie Hemm wired Klok.
Slide 8 15 Legend Legend It telescope when the human driver stresses support Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 9 15 Legends Legend of the headlights go blue when it is autonomous and white mode when s man in charge Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 10 15 Legend Legend LED on the rear of the car can communicate messages to nearby lifeforms, carbon-based Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 11 15 Legend Legend A QR code replaces the license plate, of course Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 12 15 Legend Legend Mercedes calls the elegant design, almost monolithic Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 13 15 Legend Legend Mercedes-Benz F 015 Concept This revolutionary concept courageously explores how the vehicles we know them today can be transformed by the coming age of Automotive Concept demonstrates the importance of designing globally for a new category of vehicles made possible by the emergence of a fleet of autonomous vehicles unique affordances for the intention of communicating to pedestrians, to interior privacy, new interior configurations, and new ways of working with digital content make this particularly remarkable design Danny Stillion, director of design at IDEO Executive Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 14 15 Legend Legend It comes with an application that you use to call the car, natch Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 15 15 Legend Legend As different as it seems, the F-015 is still a Mercedes-Benz Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
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Slide 1 15 Legend Legend The Mercedes F 015 is a concept car that predicts a world without human pilot Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 2 15 Legend Legend is a vision of what cars might in 2030 Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 3 15 Legend Legend In the current prototype, don t suicide doors work fine Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 4 15 Legend Legend But when opened, they drive home how a different concept is Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 5 15 Legends Legends The front seats can swivel to face the rear ones Christie Hemm wired Klok.
Slide 6 15 Legend Legend You can control your speed with one of the many touch screens, slide the car between relaxed and dynamic Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 7 15 Legend Legend The steering wheel retracts into the table minimalist edge when not in use Christie Hemm wired Klok.
Slide 8 15 Legend Legend It telescope when the human driver stresses support Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 9 15 Legends Legend of the headlights go blue when it is autonomous and white mode when s man in charge Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 10 15 Legend Legend LED on the rear of the car can communicate messages to nearby lifeforms, carbon-based Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 11 15 Legend Legend A QR code replaces the license plate, of course Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 12 15 Legend Legend Mercedes calls the elegant design, almost monolithic Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 13 15 Legend Legend Mercedes-Benz F 015 Concept This revolutionary concept courageously explores how the vehicles we know them today can be transformed by the coming age of Automotive Concept demonstrates the importance of designing globally for a new category of vehicles made possible by the emergence of a fleet of autonomous vehicles unique affordances for the intention of communicating to pedestrians, to interior privacy, new interior configurations, and new ways of working with digital content make this particularly remarkable design Danny Stillion, director of design at IDEO Executive Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 14 15 Legend Legend It comes with an application that you use to call the car, natch Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Slide 15 15 Legend Legend As different as it seems, the F-015 is still a Mercedes-Benz Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
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One day last sunny weekend, I drove from my office in San Francisco on the Bay Bridge, Interstate 880 and into a parking lot at the Alameda Naval Air Station late I was late, so I was not drive carefully, I just Woven by traffic going 15 mph over the speed limit, alternating between tailgating and passing cars on the right because I did not know where I was going and didn t take the time to connect the address in the car navigation system, I had my eyes on my phone for much of the trip.
I am an example of all the reasons why humans stinks driving.
Which was fine, because there on the tarmac was the vehicle which, more than any other I had heard or mounted leaves me totally excited for the coming age of autonomous cars.
This beautiful shiny metal guy is the F 015 Luxury in Motion It is the vision of Mercedes-Benz in the future where the streets are shared by all cars and insist politely that pedestrians please go first and even project a pedestrian crossing on the sidewalk in front of it is a place where the only acceptable materials are stainless steel, white leather, carbon fiber and wood automobile deaths are only memory cars are brilliant at both their intelligence and luster they look like bars of soap returned the next century, although Mercedes insists they t inside the human face and talk like civilized beings, or look at their phones as people.
The future looks good and Mercedes says it happens in 15 years.
4K screens that cover the inside can be used to play music, browsing pictures and chat with Christie Hemm Klok contact. WIRED
Of course, Mercedes thinks first about the next few years too, and to make serious progress toward driverless cars ago two years, its Intelligent Drive research vehicle drove 60 miles from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany, negotiating urban traffic and highway itself the latest models E and S-class already behave in traffic by using something called Mercedes Stop and Go driver This capability should include autonomous driving highway a few years.
That alone puts the German automaker to the front of one of the companies appreciable teaching pack cars drive themselves, but it is the F 015 defines Mercedes really share The automaker is working on this technology for 20 years, it is so had much time to think more creatively than its competitors and that art led Mercedes to reimagine what the cars look like once they don t need us.
The Cars that drive will fundamentally change the way we design our vehicles longtime standards as forward facing seats, mirrors, pedals and even steering wheels are no longer needed, it will be a change seismic, and automakers will be free to pursue exciting, even revolutionary ideas.
The concept has been in the works for about four years and was born of an intercultural workshop between the Mercedes designers, independent driving experts and cigarette automaker, futurist internally.
The automaker is fully on board the step by step approach for introducing autonomous functions on the market as an option on cars it already sells, but the point of appointment is to think the other way, said Holger Hutzenlaub, who worked on the exterior design to build a car around the idea of autonomous driving, rather than build autonomous driving in a car.
It is not a real car, but it is a wonderful and important work to remind us that the self-driving technology will fundamentally change the way we move.
Security is the largest expected to take the man crashes on the driver's seat kills 30,000 people each year in the US alone, and driver error is the cause of 90 percent of the time, take the driver equation and cars were suddenly a whole lot less deadly But for those who want to ride instead of driving, the prospect of the return time reading, text, chat, email, tweet anything that is even more attractive if Mercedes has focused on creating a vehicle that allows you to forget the world around them and do whatever you want to do instead.
In addition to Mercedes, it's an idea that Google has played with, and the technology giant has let us down with a prototype that has no steering wheel or pedals, but is otherwise conventional, even caricatured as corny as it is Benz is the futuristic.
Before leaving all the press a few miles from the F 015, Mercedes emphasized that is only a prototype, not fit, finish and finesse you would expect of a Mercedes Smart move because this thing works like a 70 s of the time Jaguar Electrics dodgy touchscreens do not meet the buttons that open the door gift t always work can t handle the heat of a pleasant day Bay Area, partly because much of the car is plastic that changes shape in hot trunk was stuffed with computers which do not like the heat either, so when walking in the car wasn t Mercedes pumped into the fresh air with a hose After the car stopped with our photographer on board, the autonomous system wouldn t turn back.
None of this is important because Mercedes has 15 years to get this sorted What is important here is not the technology but the car wrapped around it.
The exterior design has emerged informal competitions between Mercedes designers and F 015 as it is today was born from a concept to its designer called Led Zeppelin, because it would use light-emitting diodes and is a bit like a form airship prove some Germans have a sense of humor, or at least appreciate a good pun he's not supposed to look like a bar of soap wrapped in aluminum foil, although it is superb this, if only because it's like I've never seen.
With funds reflecting, polished aluminum, the seats look like they're floating Christie Hemm Klok WIRED.
Thank you to a gargantuan longer wheelbase than the new Mercedes Maybach, the interior is remarkably spacious, with wide edge with the front seat turned backwards, everyone has the opportunity to extend the claustrophobia that can come with sitting back a classic car, with its sloping roof and high chairs before you went there is no hard edges or corners, and polished aluminum reflective seats look like they're floating .
Because it is an electric vehicle, it s no transmission tunnel, so that the floor is flat it's wrong, and I suppose it is great, but, but Mercedes wouldn t open because it s packed with all the equipment that makes the car move its own.
As I nestled deeper and deeper into the leather seats, the idea of leaving the only touch screen and drive the car just seemed stupid you do leave first class to the cockpit.
These seats don t rotate right, they almost flat incline, which reinforces the idea that self-driving cars are made to sleep, no matter what the regulators say 4K touchscreens are sitting just below the windows, and when they work allow you to select the music, browse photos and talk to everyone on your contact list, they are combined with tinted glass to create what Mercedes calls a cocooning effect Mercedes suggests using screens to project beautiful scenery around you instead of watching the road roller by I see the potential here instead of an offer to homeless squeegee your windshield, you will see the people celebrating your visit a Tuscan village will take the place of your cul shabby suburban alley.
This place Sá really nice to avoid the clamorous world, smelly, with some flaws No cupholders which is with advanced cars skimp on the cupholders It's a small coffee table, which is not good for anything, except for the holding of a cut that will inevitably fall screens set up right next to you, are difficult to use.
None of the major criticisms in particular, because the F 015 is simply a platform of ideas, the inevitable result of Mercedes engineers and designers around the world saying, if this is not a car, is allowed to seriously reconsider the possibilities that will come when the autonomous technology fundamentally changes the way we move.
There will come a time in a few decades, when people simply no longer will lead This is a difficult truth for automakers like Mercedes-Benz and Audi to recognize, given the time and money they spend depicting their car enjoyable to drive They serve every stroke of your car will drive with a fighter But you can still drive your car if you want what will make sense that the transition to autonomous cars begins you will take the wheel of your SL class when driving through the rolling hills, it will take more of your boring ride.
But the day will come when we won t even do that This explains why the steering wheel in the F 015 is in large part RUDIMENTARY.
I did not get behind the wheel of the 015 F, and I did not feel it isn ta person car would ever lead to something, there is huge No amount of torque of electric motors is Mercedes got to slap this thing will never make a heady artist he is also a bit heavy; the epic wheelbase does nothing for its agility Hutzenlaub said Mercedes would consider giving the car four-wheel steering if production ever seen.
But all this is irrelevant as I snuggled deeper into the leather seats, the idea of leaving the only touch screens and take the wheel seemed really stupid After all, you don t let the first class to sit in the cockpit.
The F-015 one of the most exciting cars I've ever seen and I do not want to drive.
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