Mercedes-Benz has unveiled an idea automobile which may drive sideways, is operated by a ‘jellyfish’ joystick, and has a digital management panel managed by the motive force’s hand gestures and respiration.
The Imaginative and prescient AVTR was unveiled in partnership with James Cameron’s new film, Avatar: the Approach of Water, and very similar to the avatars within the science-fiction movie, the automobile is meant to function an extension of the human physique.
Complimenting the film’s environmentalist message, the automobile is electrically powered and emissions free.
The automobile is just not on the market, a journalist for The Drive managed to get behind the ‘jellyfish’ joystick – solely after signing an NDA – and described the automobile as ‘a slice of 2154.’
The Imaginative and prescient AVTR idea automobile from Mercedes-Benz is meant to blur the strains between man and machine, and was produced in partnership with James Cameron’s movie Avatar: The Approach of Water
The futuristic body of the Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient AVTR idea automobile. It’s unclear what number of fashions exist
The Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR’s glass doorways carry as much as open and shut. The automobile has two doorways
The automobile seems prefer it took mistaken flip 100 or so years down the road and ended up in 2022.
The body is concurrently bulbous and streamlined, and appears to be all windshield and pulsating blue lights.
Contained in the automobile is has two deep bucket seats, and a smooth middle console that emerges from the again and spreads out throughout the place usually a dashboard and management panel could be.
There isn’t any wheel and there aren’t any pedals, solely the joystick – in comparison with a jellyfish by Mercedes techs – which is used to each speed up, decelerate, and reverse the automobile, together with steering it left and proper.
The ‘jellyfish’ joystick that’s used to drive the automobile in lieu of a standard steering wheel and pedals
The large curved middle console which spreads out earlier than the automobile’s seats. A display is used to broadcast the view outdoors of the automobile to the motive force
A view contained in the Imaginative and prescient AVTR. The console display is meant to boost the motive force’s perceptions of their environment
The automobile was produced in partnership with the James Cameron movie Avatar: The Approach of Water, and just like the movie promotes environmentalism
The inside of the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR. The seats are constituted of vegan leather-based and alter colours primarily based on the sunshine round them
The panels on the again of the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR are photo voltaic cells which may change their orientation
A detailed have a look at the photo voltaic cell flaps on the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR
The Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR and its photo voltaic cell claps engaged whereas the automobile’s wheels mild up on a pavement flooring
A glance contained in the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR via the glass door on the correct aspect of the car
The good curved console that replaces a dashboard is meant to function an extension of the windshield, and broadcasts a real-time picture of what’s going down across the automobile to assist the motive force totally immerse of their environment.
The know-how doesn’t but exist to type a curved display of that measurement but, in accordance with The Drive, so for now these photographs of the surface world are created by a projector the present Imaginative and prescient AVTR mannequin.
The automobile’s management panel can also be operated by projector. When a driver raises their hand palm-up, a management panel is beamed down by projector and is manipulated via hand gestures.
Mercedes would someday like that sort of operation to be managed by the motive force’s thoughts – the rudimentary know-how of which was demonstrated by Mercedes at a 2021 automobile present, in accordance with The Drive.
The automobile firm additionally needs the VISION to someday have the ability to start-itself up by recognizing the respiration patterns of its driver once they enter the automobile, however for now that know-how is just not obtainable.
Many components of the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR mild up. Right here, the wheels will be seen lit up, together with the Mercedes emblem
The aspect of the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR. It has a really smooth design which is aerodynamic
A aspect view of the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR. The doorways are glass so the motive force can see out of them very simply
A rear view of the Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR which exhibits its flaps and its wheels lit up
The movable scales alongside the bottom of the automobile are photo voltaic cells which assist energy the automobile’s inner methods
The glass-side of the Imaginative and prescient AVTR because it cruises down a metropolis road. The automobile’s wheels mild up
The Imaginative and prescient AVTR is at present solely an idea automobile and isn’t on the market, however is meant to serve for instance of the sort of autos which can be obtainable down the street
The battery which drives the automobile can cost in about quarter-hour, and has a spread of about 430 miles earlier than it wants recharging
The automobile can also be supposed to maximise sustainability. The inside seats – which change their colours primarily based on the sunshine round them – are made from a vegan leather-based that are sourced from recycled clothes and plastic bottles
The automobile pushed by The Drive was solely able to reaching 15mph. It’s unclear if it will probably go sooner that that
Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR emblem because it seems on one of many automobile’s massive home windows
The Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR lit up on the blacktop outdoors of a metropolis
The Mercedes Imaginative and prescient AVTR pictured in entrance of a nonetheless from the brand new Avatar film
The automobile can also be supposed to maximise sustainability. The inside seats – which change their colours primarily based on the sunshine round them – are made from a vegan leather-based that are sourced from recycled clothes and plastic bottles.
The again of the automobile can also be coated in an array of photo voltaic panel flaps which will be moved to higher align with the solar to maximise charging. And the automobile’s software program and {hardware} each designed to effectively distribute the usage of electrical energy all through the automobile’s methods with out waist.
The battery which drives the automobile can cost in about quarter-hour, and has a spread of about 430 miles earlier than it wants recharging.
That battery powers 4 motors which drive every wheel, amounting to about 469 horsepower throughout the drive-system.
These 4 motors will be operated independently of one another, so if the motive force runs the ahead and rear axles in numerous instructions the automobile can drive sideways and crab stroll into tight metropolis parking spots.
The automobile pushed by The Drive was solely able to reaching 15mph.
