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Wood: I got to ride along in the F 015
which is Mercedes' concept for
the autonomous luxury vehicle
of the future.
And this vehicle is so autonomous
that anyone in the car can operate it.
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Looking at this car, and waiting to get inside,
I already have the feeling of being on a movie set.
It is clearly a concept, and a far out concept at that.
-We can bring the car through the
parking precision with P, and also
you can pick up the car.
-Here it comes.
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Blue lights mean autonomous. White lights mean you're driving yourself.
I'm sure all the pedestrians will totally figure that out.
Car: Please go ahead Wood:(laughs)
Wood: I'm going. It said it was ok.
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-When I say ok, then you have the conducting rights
-I have the conducting rights.
So anyone in the car can potentially conduct as long as they request access
from the driver, which means any of the
four of us could be the driver.
This particular concept vehicle is not currently equipped with all the sensors
to make it an autonomous car,
so we're driving a pre-programmed route,
but the goal is that it the long run,
this will be a fully autonomous,
self driving car.
One of the goals of this car is that you
can create an interior experience
that's maybe different from the exterior.
So you can have nice pictures if you're stuck in traffic
or you're in an industrial area. But then the
pictures themselves are all controlled
by touch screens. This center console
is part of this shared space idea.
The idea that you could all be
riding in the car together, and you could make this table come out.
It has various proximity capabilities.
So if your friends are sharing their
location, you might see a screen that
pops up that shows their pictures if
they're close by.
There are other sort of futuristic technologies built in,
like this beam cam,
which actually shows this exterior
view of the car. But then you could
share that.
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It's all very far out sounding,
but it's all based on
technology that mostly exists today.
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