Imagine a National City with a vibrant shopping scene,
autonomous vehicle parking garages, an entire street of world - class buildings that architecture magazines swoon over and micro-unit apartments that keep rent low for the next generation of professionals.
Not exact matches
An
autonomous vehicle races around the track at a DIY Robocar race at Thunderhill Raceway
Park in Northern California, April 1 2017
The
autonomous vehicles normally filling the
parking lot outside were nowhere to be seen.
Project will further on - road testing in the Kanata North tech
park, where BlackBerry conducted the first demonstration of an
autonomous vehicle on a public street in Canada last year.
16 Many high - end
vehicles are already partly
autonomous, with brakes that activate if sensors indicate an impending crash, steering that prevents drifting, sonar systems that navigate into
parking spaces, and cruise control that prevents following the next car too closely.
«I think you will see
autonomous vehicles rolled out in places like Olympic
parks or central cities pretty soon, but it's going to be a while before you can go into a garage and buy a car without a steering wheel.»
There's been a drip - drip - drip of
autonomous technology for years, but it's only now that the apparently innocent introduction of
parking assist, self -
parking, radar cruise control and lane departure and blind - spot monitoring can be seen for what they are: a suite of «semi-
autonomous» driver aids to soften us up for fully
autonomous vehicles.
Ghosn says he intends to make fully
autonomous parking, meanwhile, «available across a wide range of
vehicles.»
The Volkswagen Group is readying
autonomous parking functionality for deployment in series production
vehicles in 2020.
The Next - Generation fuel cell
vehicle shows what future driving will look like and lets customers experience it with innovative convenience features like Remote
Parking, Blind Spot View Monitor and
autonomous driving capabilities.
Just last year, Google introduced a fleet of
autonomous vehicles, one of which drove itself from Carson, Nevada, to the SEMA Show and
parked itself in the
Vehicle Technology Center!
Volkswagen wants to take the hassle out of finding
parking spots and has begun testing
autonomous parking technology at the airport in Hamburg, Germany, using VW, Porsche and Audi
vehicles.
The new
autonomous parking tech will find its way into VW, Audi, and Porsche products with
autonomous testing for those
vehicles happening at Hamburg airport now.
The Volkswagen Group will soon have
autonomous parking ready for its series
vehicles the company has stated.
Add the Technik Package (fitted to our test
vehicle) for $ 5800 and you get
park assist with 360 - degree camera, active lane assist, adaptive cruise control with Stop & Go function,
autonomous emergency braking and four - zone climate control (always a hit with the kids).
They include
autonomous emergency braking, a new traffic jam assist function that steers and brakes the
vehicle in slow traffic using radar and camera technology, front and rear
parking sensors, a reversing camera and 360 - degree camera and rear cross traffic assist.
In early years,
parking layouts can be altered to allow for denser
parking — an available option with computer - aided
parking and
autonomous vehicles — to future phases that adapt the building to new uses, such as office or retail.
Some of the in - car Office features will only be accessible when the
vehicle is
parked, or when it's in an
autonomous mode.
The acres of non-revenue producing
parking stalls that used to house cars can soon be replaced by much smaller and efficient queuing lines for
autonomous vehicles and repurposed into interactive space for people and sales.