Ford patents living room on wheels
Google and many other companies are aggressively working on self-driving cars. These cars are going to fundamentally change human life. But public at large is unaware on how these cars are going to look like in day-to-day real life scenarios.
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Ford has been developing features that would be helpful when the self-driving cars finally hit the roads. For example, with the car driving all by itself, the front seats are no longer required. Therefore, Ford has patented technology to fold and stow away the front seats to make more space in the car and convert the interior of the car into a living room. In fact, everything from the seats to the steering wheel is reconfigurable. Users can use the additional space to play video games or entertain themselves in other ways.
Further, the front seats can be rotated to face the back seats. This allows all passengers to enjoy a game of porker with their friends while being driven to their destination. Further, while traveling with business associates in the car, users can instantly set up a round table conference. The console which is usually placed between the front seats of the car is also movable and can be positioned anywhere within the interior of the car to act as a table.
What is amazing is that all these transformations can take place while the car is in motion.
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Teenagers will no longer have to find some out of the way place to park and make out, just give the car a destination and go at it.
Where was this tech when I needed it! :)
This is pretty interesting to think about.
Btw, typo: "This allows all passengers to enjoy a game of porker..."
That is no typo.
What is porker? I thought it was supposed to be poker.
I'm still not driving, and I can't wait for those cars to come to market. This is going to be awesome.