South Korean electric car "Armadillo-T" bends to park ... - Digital Diary

experimental electric car “Armadillo-T ‘, manufactured in South Korea, can be seen in a video statement to bend to become small, revealing an innovative advantage in time to park.

This two-seater compact vehicle can never reach the production line in the series, but was presented as part of an initiative to develop vehicles “friendly environment” for urban spaces.

The car can travel 100 km with the energy of a charge of ten minutes, and is 60 km / hour. When parking, the rear rises and engages the front. In its most compact form, do not measure over 1.65 meters.

‘can be parked in any corner in the streets or buildings, whether apartments, shopping centers or supermarkets, “said Suh In-soo, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korean, who led the design of the car.

To allow the vehicle to bend, Suh had to dispense with mirrors, solving the problem of vision to the rear with small cameras mounted at the rear, which show the images on a screen next to the steering wheel.

A Windows-based computer system allows the car to communicate with the Armadillo driver’s iPhone, allowing, for example, the automatic parking of the vehicle.

The car can not circulate on the streets of Korea because it does not meet certain legal requirements such as the ability to withstand a crash.

Suh

said South Korea should change restrictive laws that prevent micro-cars, particularly in terms of resistance to injury, taking into account that this type of vehicle does not reach very high speeds.

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