Recently South Korean company that produced a cars called Hyundai introduce their new concept about cars called Elevate. The vehicle is equipped with a robotics legs and can be used independently of weather conditions or terrain of the landscapes.
On Wednesday the company released a new image of a technique and several days later Hyundai presented a little prototype of the vehicle.
On the annual electronics convention company shared a video that give a brief introduction on how the invention can be used, for which purposes it was created and what kinds of problems it can solve.
The innovation can be used in different spheres of life. As an example, the it can be used by an ordinary people that live in the areas of frequent snowfalls, it can decrease the traffic congestion and the rate of accidence on the road.
Also, during some accidence like cave-in in mountains the cars can be used as an ambulance that is able to get directly to the affected person that require an immediate help despite any kind of terrain, without extra movements of humans bodies which in turn help to avoid some unpleasant consequences.
Another idea is to use this vehicle as a taxi. It would be useful for people with disabilities because thanks to the robotic legs a car can pick up a person mostly from everywhere. It is quite effective especially when there is no contraction for disabled for instance a ramp.
Overall, the possibilities of usage of the machine are limitless.
REFERENCES
1.https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/hyundai-elevate-climbing-car-concept-ces-2019/
2.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/hyundai-elevate-prototype-the-worlds-first-walking-car-preview
3.https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2019/01/09/hyundai-has-an-insane-walking-car-concept-that-is-either-exciting-or-terrifying/#3bf9f19d49d6
4.https://futurism.com/the-byte/walking-car-hyundai-video
It sounds incredible and for now I can not imagine seeing such a car on the road, but if this company could be able to create such cars, it would certainly be a great facilitation for doctors or taxi drivers, as the author mentioned in the post. Of course, the Elevate cars are still a long way to go, but since AI is developing so quickly, maybe we’ll see the first-in-use cars soon?
This Hyundai car looks more like rover used during Mars exploration, but it has a lot of potentials. It might be used also to transport building materials to hard-to-reach places, for example, to build infrastructure in mountain areas or to deliver food to mountain lodges. I am amazed by Hyundai’s progress over the last ten years.
I am glad to see another Great solution that is focused on helping people. I think that Example with the taxi driver is a bit complicated to be realise because of architecture bounds. However, I can imagine such a cars as an ambulances helping with a patients. It is an interesting move of Hyundai and maybe in a right direction.
The only dissadnevtage which i see in this design is the rather slow speed of this “car” each wheel is powered separatly so i don’t think it will be a good solution for an ambulance, or a car for a ciy, but definitly it would help in mountains,caves and other not accesible places.