http://www.greentechlead.com/electric-vehicle/german-small-electric-car-can-shrink-to-park-27224 German small electric car can shrink to park By Ajith Kumar S August 5, 2015
[image http://www.greentechlead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/EOscc2_Electric_Car-640x400.jpg / http://novosti-n.org ] A team of German engineers has developed a small electric car that can turnabout, shrink and park automatically. The EO Smart Connecting Car 2 (EOscc2), semi-autonomous car offers users the options to be driven diagonally and sideways. The vehicle is being touted as an ideal solution for increasingly congested parking lots, Zigwheels reports. EOscc2 has been designed at Bremen, Germany, -based DFKI Robotics Innovation Centre. It’s development involved a team of software developers and designers, and electronics and construction engineers and took three years, the report says. Besides diagonal and sideways manoeuvreability, the other options are doing a turnabout and shrinking from 8 feet to 5 feet without compromising seating comfort. The technology that enables such a feat is that each wheel of the car is powered by individual motors attached to them and can therefore operate in different directions independent of each other. “The car has top-speed of 65kmph and can travel 50 to 70km on a single four-hour full charge of the battery,” the report adds. The EOscc2 also offers semi-autonomous features such as roof-mounted built-in cameras and a LIDAR sensor that provides input every one-tenth of a second. The car is undergoing field tests in Bremen and Dalian in China. [© 2015 GreentechLead.com] http://www.zigwheels.com/autogasm/this-electric-car-can-shrink-itself/22704/ This electric car can shrink itself August 5, 2015 The EO Smart Connecting Car 2 is semi-autonomous and can be driven diagonally and sideways This electric car can shrink itself Finding a decent parking spot in our busy metros is a tough task. It is even more difficult to squeeze your vehicle into a tight spot in rush hour. But, now a team of German engineers have come with an ingenious solution - a small electric car that can turn on the spot, shrink in size and park itself. The EO Smart Connecting Car 2 (EOscc2) is an innovative design from DFKI Robotics Innovation Centre, based in Bremen, Germany, where a team of software developers and designers, as well as electronics and construction engineers, have been refining the smart micro car project for the last three years. Currently, the two-seater vehicle can be driven in the traditional way, diagonally and sideways. It can also pivot on the spot and shrink from 8 feet to 5 feet while maintaining a comfortable seating position, according to the firm. It does this because its wheels are individually powered by separate motors so that they can turn in different directions. The car has a top-speed of 65kmph and can travel 50 to 70km on a single four-hour full charge of the battery. This car boasts of semi-autonomous features such as inbuilt cameras and a LIDAR sensor on its roof which lets the vehicle scan its environment and locate itself in it in as good as 10 times a second. The EOscc2 is designed to link with others to form a kind of connected convoy that can save energy over long distances - such as on motorways or as a car-sharing scheme. A team of 10 engineers built the car from scratch over a three year period. The EOscc2 is currently being tested in the cities of Bremen in Germany and Dalian in China. [© zigwheels.com] ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey,_I_Shrunk_the_Kids Honey, I Shrunk the Kids http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097523/ [dated & related] http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/59_Goggo.html Honey . . . I shrunk the car ! ... Rollermobiles ... microcars ... three or four-wheeled [ice] motorscooters with a roof ...Goggomobil ... its nickname Arbeiter-Ferrari ("Workman's Ferrari") ... [ts:50mph] http://www.californiaclassix.com/images/Goggo-4.jpg http://goggomobil.com/ ... http://www.newsweek.com/honey-i-shrunk-car-84647 Honey, I Shrunk The Car - Newsweek Mar 14, 2008 - Richardson, 55, likes spending less at the pump, but she's most excited about how roomy her little [ice] car is. "My son is 6-foot-6, and he drove it," ... For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Car-EOscc2-4seat-nEV-drives-diagonally-sideways-tp4677108.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
