ForbiddenKnowledgeTV
Alexandra Bruce
November 2, 2014
This clip garnered a lot of legitimate down votes and jeers on YouTube – but having been trapped and lost in a few rabbit-warren-like parking garages in Los Angeles, to the point of where I’ve begun hyperventilating, I can appreciate the self-parking aspect of this vehicle as a de-stressor in day-to-day life (if you live in LA, which I don’t anymore, thank goodness) but I’m really more impressed with the engineering involved, that makes this perfect back-end parking job possible.
As noted by one commentator, the shot of the car’s first maneuver *does* appear to cut out before its inevitable trajectory of impacting with the curb and/or the bottles strewn on the ground (I’m guessing to alert its sensors, since the curb and the pavement are so monochrome – and there is also the question of legal liability, should one of these robo-cars mangle an innocent bystander.
Something tells me that in a hyper-litigious market, like that of the US, we won’t be seeing these cars on American roads anytime soon – it would seem to me that traffic laws will have to be amended and actual human driving made illegal before such cars could roam wild and free, in the USA.
Until then, the idea of cars that won’t let you drive your own car make me glad that I’ve stayed “married” to my indestructible, fuel-efficient, super-fast, telepathic 1995 525i Beemer for going on 10 years…
Add comment