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Here at Private Fleet, we keep an eye on trends in car design and the way things are shaping up.\u00a0 At the moment, I reckon there are three biggies: fuelling systems, autonomous vehicles and sensors.<\/p>\nHere at Private Fleet, we keep an eye on trends in car design and the way things are shaping up.\u00a0 At the moment, I reckon there are three biggies: fuelling systems, autonomous vehicles and sensors.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with fuel.\u00a0 We all know that the supplies of crude oil aren\u2019t as big as they used to be and the ones that are left are frequently in places that are very hard to get at or are located in politically volatile countries.\u00a0 This means that if we can cut down our dependence on non-renewable fuels, we\u2019ll be able to keep on trucking the way we\u2019re accustomed to.\u00a0 We\u2019ll also help cut down on greenhouse gases, which is supposed to stop global warming or climate change.<\/p>\n
In our quest to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, we\u2019re trying a bunch of different things, all of which are getting a lot of attention in the automotive world.\u00a0 Electricity is the hottest one at the moment, with a major push towards EVs and hybrids that use both electricity and petrol.\u00a0 However, that\u2019s only one of the three.\u00a0 Just as well, as one has to ask where the electricity is coming from and how it\u2019s being generated.\u00a0 If it\u2019s being pumped out by coal- or gas-fuelled power stations, then EVs aren\u2019t the perfect green solution.\u00a0 The other hot topic in fuel is to look for other things that can be used to make diesel and petrol that are renewable \u2013 biofuels.\u00a0 The trick here is to find something that can be grown without taking land and water resources away from what we need to feed a hungry world.\u00a0 Lastly, there\u2019s the hydrogen fuel cell option, which doesn\u2019t produce much in the way of waste but is a little on the fiddly side to produce and transport, although they\u2019re working on that.<\/p>\n
All in all, this suggests that the perfect transport of the future should be able to run on something sustainable that\u2019s easy to get hold of, and that it should produce minimal waste, or at least waste that can be useful for another purpose.<\/p>\n
The second hot topic is the all the innovations being added as active safety features and driver aids.\u00a0 There seems to be a new one out every time I turn around.\u00a0 Temperature sensors for automatic climate control, 360\u00b0 vision and reverse parking sensors are old hat. Now we\u2019ve got side impact detection and avoidance, lane change assistance, autonomous braking, even systems that detect when the driver is getting tired or annoyed.\u00a0 They\u2019re working on getting the car to listen to you, with voice activated commands for all sorts of things.<\/p>\n
This suggests that the perfect transport of the future should have a ton of sensors for all sorts of things, should be able to react according to the input of those sensors without the driver having to do anything, and should be able to interface with the moods of the driver.<\/p>\n
Lastly, we\u2019ve got the topic of autonomous cars: ones that will steer themselves, pick the right speed, pick the right part of the road and all the rest of it all by themselves.\u00a0 This is closely related to the improvements in sensors and driver aids.\u00a0 If autonomous cars reached their full perfection, you\u2019d be able to hop in when well and truly under the influence, tell it to go home and then nod off until you find yourself parked outside the front door.<\/p>\n
If we all of these factors together, we can get an idea of what the designers are trying to come up with.\u00a0 Let\u2019s imagine what it would look like: something that runs on plant-sourced fuels and produces biodegradable waste that can be converted to fertilizer; has ultra-sensitive sensors for temperature, mood and upcoming hazards in practically a full circle; is voice activated and even does voice-activated acceleration and parking; and can think for itself even when the driver is exhausted or drunk. \u00a0Natural materials for the upholstery and a cheap production method would be an advantage as well.\u00a0 It already exists: when I was a child in a rural town, we called this a HORSE. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/vivus-potrebitelskie-zaymy-online.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here at Private Fleet, we keep an eye on trends in car design and the way things are shaping up.\u00a0 At the moment, I reckon there are three biggies: fuelling systems, autonomous vehicles and sensors. Let\u2019s start with fuel.\u00a0 We all know that the supplies of crude oil aren\u2019t as big as they used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}