Google has now officially become a car company
Google on Monday launched a special prototype version of driverless cars, representing a physical model introduced earlier this year made a lot of progress. Then the car without headlights, no steering wheel and foot pedals. But the latest version is filled with all the features of road test in order to comply with California law. In other words, it is equipped with all the functionality of a manned vehicle.
This means that Google has now officially become a car company, and in the past 10 years, was born in Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem of second automobile company–the first is clearly the Tesla.
However, no matter how innovative Tesla, the Roadster before the company’s Model s and looks no different from conventional cars.
Google car was like a shipping module, it is like a iPod come with wheels. Google even went out to spray it white, making it more like a consumer electronics product, rather than the car.
Wait and see it, everyone in the automotive industry now ready to Google car courtesy of humiliation-and some of us may not necessarily be very polite. They did this is because Google’s cars will have a major threat to traditional car industry, and may even threaten their survival.
Of course, this threat may have to wait decades before finalized, but its broad outlines already presented themselves.
When Google tried to use the Prius when the driverless cars, the automotive industry may be of interest to Google, but not fear. Automakers see is attached to existing models, set of technical and software functionality.
However, they did not see through its mobile concept. So, Google car model version turned out–it has no steering wheel or pedals. You don’t have to drive, and it can take you around everywhere.
Now, with promises of hundreds of prototype will be designed so that road test in California. This is not a Corvette, not a Cadillac, nor even the corolla. The next few years, you will continue to hear Google’s various Automotive News: for example, how people use it as a quality golf cart (it uses pure electric design and a top speed of about 40 km), means of transport, as well as a passion to make cars lost their free spirited personality.
Those dystopias must automatically be made fun of for it, believing that it explores the social, is a society that no longer has a driving passion, and to be fully subject to the monitoring network and a heartless robot navigation.
These views are probably not wrong, but have ignored an important aspect: this started as a search engine, the company’s ultimate goal is to provide a whole new way, let us enjoy the convenience of four-wheeled vehicles.
This ideal can be aggressive. Google car obviously is very cute, the face of it, it doesn’t seem to hurt anyone. In practice, however, it issued warnings to the automobile industry as a whole.