Coming soon: Driverless cars with bug-eyed windows!
London: Battery-operated driverless cars with bug-eyed windows will soon be carrying passengers at the Heathrow Airport.
A woman posing for photographers inside a driverless vehicle during a photocall at the Science Museum, in London on Tuesday. The photocall was held to promote a new driverless vehicle, which is part of a fleet currently being tested at Heathrow Airport before opening to passengers next year.
London: Battery-operated driverless cars with bug-eyed windows will soon be carrying passengers at the Heathrow Airport.
Children inside a driverless vehicle during a photocall at the Science Museum, in London on Tuesday.
The bubble shaped vehicles look like a capsule and their doors fold back like butterfly wings.
With a grey-and-white interior and seating space for four people, a “start” button on the wall makes up for the lack of a driver. Passengers programme their destination on a touch screen, and the car takes its own lane at a speed of 25 mph.
A woman poses for photographers beside a driverless vehicle during a photocall at the Science Museum, in London Tuesday.
Martin Lowson, who worked on the Apollo launching Saturn V Rocket, has made the car.
Lowson started the work on this car in 1995 and the cars will start operating at Heathrow next year, ferrying passengers from the parking lot to Terminal 5.
An engineer adjusts a driverless car during a photocall at the Science Museum, in London on Tuesday.
“This could have the same effect on transport this century as the Rocket had on the 19th,” Timesonline quoted Lowson as saying.
Children jump from a driverless car during a photocall at the Science Museum on Tuesday.
Lowson’s “ULTra Personal Pod Cars” will be the first one to be operated commercially.
However, some people like Paul Firmin, of the Institute of Transport Studies at the University of Leeds, are sceptical about the use of the revolutionary cars.
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