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Concept Cars: New Technologies for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Concept Cars: New Technologies for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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"Are we there yet?" A question very familiar to parents traveling
with children in the car. But it also is a question anxiously being
asked by drivers and their passengers during what we keep hearing
is this transitional time of personalized, automotive
transportation. Once we get there, we're told, our cars will be
driving themselves. All we'll need to do is to tell the vehicle
where we desire to be and then ride along as we are whisked along
in a vehicle that emits no pollution, nor will it crash because it
will be in constant communication with all the vehicles around it
whether it is hurrying down the highway or simply carrying us to
work or play, or school or the store. We aren't there yet, but
those who produce our vehicles assure us that we are getting
closer. One of the ways they make such assurances is to give us
glimpses of that future in the form of concept or "dream" cars,
3-dimensional previews of where they see "there" to be. But more
than shapes designed to draw our attention, these dream cars are
just as much, perhaps even more so, about technological
advancements. Such blending of design and engineering has
accelerated in the 21st Century as automakers - those in business
for decades and those quite new to the enterprise - seek to inspire
customers with styling that can range from purely practical, small
but roomy vehicles, to those that are sleek and sexy, but all of
them showcasing technology designed to make driving safer, cleaner,
and even more fun. The mission is to lower emissions, reduce
congestion, even eliminate collisions while assuring the individual
mobility that has made the automobile such a powerful and
influential part of a modern life and lifestyle that is reaching
into every geographic part of the planet Are we there yet? Not
quite, but is book's aim is to offer a glimpse of what might be
once we arrive.
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