Have a business meeting … in your car!

The idea of driving a car without a human driver at the wheel may seem unrealistic, but recently Mercedes Benz has unveiled his autonomous car.

The German car manufacturer exposed the fully electric F105 Luxury in Motion concept car at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in January, and they believe that the car would be on sale by the end of the decade.

Luxury in the car

The new auto-automobile is no longer just a vehicle for getting around. The F105 will offer unparallelled luxury, and a simple car is now transformed into an actual mobile living space. This will certainly have an impact on our society!

A special feature of this innovative car is that it doesn’t have any proper windows, although it does have a normal windscreen. A sense of movement is achieved by using a technology called ‘Pixel Stream’ to project images of the outside world into the car's interior.

Eco-friendly and safe

It’s a zero-emissions automobile, with a hydrogen fuel cell used to generate and store electricity. It predicted that the cities of the future will no longer be smoggy, but people-friendly where humans and machines harmoniously share the roads. 

It's also super-safe, with the sides of the car able to inflate like an airbag to protect passengers in the event of a terrible crash.

Although the car is only a concept, the F105 would cost about the same as an Mercedes S-Class, which start at about 65.000 dolllar.

Mercedes believes that we’ll see driverless cars on our streets within five years. Therefore the company is hoping to be a major player in the upcoming autonomous car revolution. Even Google is expected to launch its driverless car prototype this year.

In our country, television-scientist Lieven Scheire has tried such a driverless car for his new program. The outcome was quite surprising! Take a look at: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/videozone/Gezienoptv/1.2283484

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Vincent

Sources:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/ces-2015-mercedes-futuristic-self-driving-4926267