What good is a self-driving car? For example, we get in the evening, get ready and get some good, and in the morning we wake up at the destination.
The Volvo 360C study goes straight to the planes: the Swedes believe that early morning flights should (could) be triggered by an appropriately comfortable, autonomous, sleeping car.
According to the idea, the one-man vehicles, similar to the sleeping cabs of the trains, can arrive at the breakfast meeting more efficiently, more comfortably and with fewer stress (obviously not in Budapest-Nyíregyháza but in Budapest-Munich) as if we were on a dawn flight, destroying our entire morning.
Volvo is, moreover, rational: it targets the United States with the new study, where domestic aviation is an extensive and accepted phenomenon. That's why the 360C aboard not only sleeps: the car can be rearranged into a mobile office, living room and entertainment center.
As the 360C is running without an absolute driver, Volvo has suggested that it is time to create a universal, brand-independent communications standard that allows autonomous cars and other road users to understand each other's intentions. Volvo recommends a signal bundle of sounds, colors, gestures; this was shown at the auspices of the new study.
(Source: vezess.hu / photo: Volvo)