Remember the part in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies when Pierce Brosnan remotely controlled his BMW 7 from the back seat with an Ericsson phone? That was 18 years ago, so we've included a clip from the movie below to help you remember. Apparently, this impressed a young engineer so much that he made it his life's mission to work his way through hard work and dedication to a position where Bond's toy will be translated into reality. His dream came true at Land Rover.
At the English car company Jaguar Land Rover have presented a model Range Rover Sport, which can be controlled by the driver from outside the cab using a smartphone. It is a prototype technology that through the mobile app allows steering control, acceleration and braking and changing the reducer. The driver can thus walk next to the vehicle and operate it as if he were driving remote controlled little car and in this way copes with difficult terrain in a more transparent way (he can direct the wheels with filigree precision, check angles, etc.).
That's a really big plus when driving over sod and stubble, where watercourses, stones or snowy or muddy sections cross our path. It will also be a system that enables moving at a speed of up to 6 km/h, came in handy when reverse parking, when reversing out of a parking space, where we do not have an overview of what is happening on the road or when we are parked.
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The Rand Rover Sport can be controlled remotely from a distance of no more than 10 meters, and what is more, the system is automatically turned off. It also does this if the driver is too close. It is his "fuse". smart key. If it does not detect this, the SUV cannot be controlled at a distance. There is still a lot of potential hidden in this kind of autonomous technology, and the English brand na additional autonomous functions, which will turn the driver into a passive observer, is already hard at work.
