A team of German engineers has developed a small electric car that can turnabout, shrink and park automatically.
The EO Smart Connecting Car 2 (EOscc2), semi-autonomous car offers users the options to be driven diagonally and sideways.
The vehicle is being touted as an ideal solution for increasingly congested parking lots, Zigwheels reports.
EOscc2 has been designed at Bremen, Germany, -based DFKI Robotics Innovation Centre. It’s development involved a team of software developers and designers, and electronics and construction engineers and took three years, the report says.
Besides diagonal and sideways manoeuvreability, the other options are doing a turnabout and shrinking from 8 feet to 5 feet without compromising seating comfort. The technology that enables such a feat is that each wheel of the car is powered by individual motors attached to them and can therefore operate in different directions independent of each other.
“The car has top-speed of 65kmph and can travel 50 to 70km on a single four-hour full charge of the battery,” the report adds. The EOscc2 also offers semi-autonomous features such as roof-mounted built-in cameras and a LIDAR sensor that provides input every one-tenth of a second.
The car is undergoing field tests in Bremen and Dalian in China.
Ajith Kumar S
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