Since the electric car of the future will be able to safely get us from A to B thanks to its automatic control, without any involvement in driving it, how will the concept of the vehicle expand as an everyday object? To this question, mwe can get cpartial response and at the same time to experience the taste of the future thanks to the project passenger electric car MINI brand.
MINI project Vision Urbanaut shows us the wide possibilities of creative use of a small car space, which can automatically change from something resembling a modern car with an independent workplace while traveling, into a full-fledged living room when stationary, when you cannot even see the dashboard, and the swivel seat or fold-out sofa allows us to taking a nap, relaxing music or enjoying the scenery with the sliding windows down and properly transformed. Moreover, according to this design, the car of the future may offer several user-selectable modes, each of which will suitably transform the car for purposes such as work, relaxation, talking to other passengers or interacting with the vehicle's surroundings.
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We can imagine what the control of such a car will look like from the already existing technologies. We probably rarely, if ever, will reach to the steering wheel, preferring relaxation, work or entertainment while traveling, and the car will take us to the selected place and will fulfill our other intentions mainly through voice commands. In this way, we will be able to not only spend vehicle ordering you to get to the right place as quickly or as calmly as possible, but also, for example, to change the aforementioned vehicle mode or to grant different levels of access to our car to friends and family members.
When will these types of vehicles become commonplace? Given the pace of development of autonomous car technology, this is already possible at the end of this decade, but opinions are divided on this, even though there are already places where self-driving test cars, even such as publicly available taxis, operate quite well.
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Reaching even further into the future, let's imagine that no there are already cars with the option to take control of the steering (as they have been banned for reasons of "public interest" and "road safety", for example). What would the consequences be? Would the name "car" still be adequate in such a situation? Would our concept and sense of "road safety" or "freedom and autonomy of movement" change? Personally, I think they would not change significantly, if anything, for the better, but I leave the Readers with these futuristic questions for their own reflection.
