From the news office at M.I.T.”As part of the MIT Media Lab’s concept car research project with architect Frank Gehry and General Motors, the Media Lab will present “Concept Car:A Work in Progress” on the evening of Wednesday,Sept.8.William J. Mitchell, head of the Media Lab’s program in Media Arts and Sciences, together with Ph.D.candidate Ryan Chin, will present the scope and nature of the research project and the steps to defining a new vehicle architecture. The presentation is free and open to the public; it will begin at 7 p.m. in MIT‚Äö√Ñ√∂‚àö√ë‚àö¥s Bush Room (Room 10-105).Mitchell and Chin will highlight the group’s efforts to radically rethink how cars will be designed for the city of the future. Possible features for such vehicles could include programmable exteriors that change according to need; networked, embedded intelligence that can help a driver avoid a traffic jam or alert another car to a danger ahead; remote-control steering; or wheels that would enable ‚Äö√Ñ√∂‚àö√ë‚àö‚à´smart‚Äö√Ñ√∂‚àö√ë‚àöœÄ parallel parking.Rather than mere transportation devices, cars of the future can become our wheeled companions that continually learn about the city they inhabit, and use that knowledge to provide an intelligent interface to the resources the city offers.‚Äö√Ñ√∂‚àö√ë‚àö‚à´Our hope is to invent a car that can function as though it has a good London cab driver built in,‚Äö√Ñ√∂‚àö√ë‚àöœÄsays Mitchell”.
MIT group presents research on city car of the future