The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently tested 23 vehicles approaching a crash test dummy standing or walking across a street a night. Previous research showed Automatic Emergency Braking struggled identifying pedestrians in the dark. The same was true when the cars encountered another vehicle crossing an intersection. And when researchers looked at left hand turns, every vehicle failed to stop. But when the speed was increased to 40 miles per hour, the cars stopped or slowed only 30% of the time. So, it's very common across about 90% of all vehicles sold as a standard feature," says Megan McKernan, the Group Manager of Automotive Services at AAA.ĪAA tested vehicles from four automakers equipped with the technology and found: Facing a rear-end accident at 30 miles per hour the vehicles stopped or significantly slowed down 85% of the time. "About 20 automakers actually voluntarily agreed to start making this feature standard on vehicles starting in 2022, 2023. The feature uses cameras and sensors to detect a vehicle and hit the brakes when the driver does not. An Ambassador is too heavy for all that, but a lightweight Ambassador replica (fiberglass, perhaps) with a single seat inside, propelled by multiple drone motors can do the job.AAA: Automatic Braking Systems In New Car Frequently FailingĪutomatic Emergency Braking is common in new cars and designed to prevent accidents. People have managed to use multiple high-powered drone motors to make a lot of things hover. So will we ever see a flying Ambassador? Well, it IS possible for a determined DIYer, we think. The KittyHawk is another promising project, from Google’s Larry Page, that looks like a cross between a plastic F1 car and a boat. But no, they have nothing to do with cars – if anything, they are alternatives to cars. They look really impressive, and could become the first real flying personal vehicles. The eHang UAV, already being tested in Dubai for short hops, is more like an air taxi built using tech derived from remote-controlled drones. Recent attempts to fly include Moller International’s high-profile failures, the Terrafugia Transition, the PAL-V, and ATVs strung up below paraglider wings. The Airphibian (1946) was the first one to get a certification as an aircraft. The first one was the Curtiss Autoplane (which never took off) and the Arrowbile (another failure). As far back as the early 1990s, people tried to make cars fly. However, apart from some tethered test flights, none of them ever made an untethered flight, as far as we know.įlying cars are nothing new. They looked futuristic, and achieved lift through the use of ducted fans. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Moller International received a lot of press attention for their VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft. That is still in the realm of science fiction. Not in India, perhaps, but they are getting more and more viable with each passing day.Īnti-gravity technology – which seems to be what powers our Ambassador Hover cars – is obviously a very long way away. The interesting thing is hover cars are finally becoming real. The flying car in Harry Potter movies may have required some serious magic, but the Amby flying car requires only the magic of Photoshop. Take a look at these three photos of hovering Ambassador cars below. However, we are pretty sure most of us never thought about a flying Hindustan Ambassador! A lot of us, when we were kids, wished they would become real some day. If you were a kid who grew up watching Back to The Future movies (that means you are an uncle now), or Harry Potter (you are of marriageable age, right?) you would have come across flying cars. These are digital renders created by our artist who edited photos of actual Ambassadors on Indian roads. Most of you would have guessed it instantly – these are not real hovering/flying Hindustan Ambassador cars.
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