It’s operated by using a joystick, and the dashboard info – like your speed, mileage, and engine cues – are all displayed digitally. It moves the vehicle based off the traveling speed and distance of surrounding cars, and if it detects anything in the way, it will brake automatically to prevent collisions.Īnd with its small footprint, the two-seating pod is easier to park than regular vehicles.
In order for it to work, though, electromagnetic mineral strips need to be embedded underneath the roads (kind of like how maglev trains function).Īnother cool feature about the Hover Car is the Safety Sensor. One of them was this Hover Car, which looks like it came straight out of the movies: Youtube/VolkswagenĬreated by student Wang Jia, The Hover Car is a zero-emission vehicle that can travel by using a magnetic force to keep it suspended several feet off the ground. After all, their name “Volkswagen” literally translates to “people’s car” in both German and Chinese.Īfter sifting through over a hundred thousand submissions, they narrowed it down to three finalists. They called it, “The People’s Car Project”. Back in 2011, Volkswagen asked the people of China to submit what they thought the car of the future should look like.
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