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There are cars, in which love at first sight. There are those whose unusual shape persuaded not immediately, slowly. Other same sostaritsya able nobody priglyanuvshimisya clumsy. But very few are those who looks, a not important: to assess them on merit, it is necessary to look inwards. This latest remarkable breed of creature designers General Motors' project automation "with great pomp submitted in Detroit.
However, the car makers have argued that it does not apply to any breed, and quite unique. "Auto" more than just new contracts tsept, said, introducing new audience, President and Executive Director of General Motors, Rick Vegonir. Potentially, this is the beginning of the revolution in the design, manufacture and operation of the car. "
Meanwhile, at first glance "Auto" does not produce heart impression. But leaders of the rank of words usually not abandoned to the winds. But what, then, a revolution? Dallas GMCNo, not in the machine-silver body just below. The essence of this machine in the flat, only six inches (15 cm) high, the load platform, which designers label dubbed park-board on wheels. " It concluded virtually all of the car-engine, transmission, suspension, brakes, steering, fuel supply.
On top of the chassis is easy to install almost any Ku call-passenger or cargo, of a, sports, utilitarian, roskoshno- expensive or very easy. Flat floor provide myriad combinations seats, and by the absence of a steering column and pedals (all managed by wire), the driver can not just sit on the left front, but virtually anywhere in the body.
"It is a new architecture of the machine, said at the Detroit motorshow Vice President, John Em" on long-term planning, research and development Larry Burns, is much more than the sum of its parts unusual. "Auto"almost infinite variety of four vehicles that can be built for only two to three common chassis. "
Of course, to achieve this result using existing internal combustion engine, it is impossible. Inside the "park"Auto"hiding batteries and fuel cells with hydrogen tank. And the development of electronic "grade", almost entirely replaced the engineer, specialists' Em Dzhi- "extensive use of the experience of the Swedish company SKF engineers and designers Italian" Bertone, acquired in a "controlled by wire" the "File" in 2000.Main same dignity "Auto" is not a car, and the entire project, its flexibility. To increase the engine power, enough to increase the number of fuel cell parameters change management computer teammates driver-adjusts suspension, traction and braking re effort, in front turning aggressive sports compartments in the working long wagon or valyazhny limousine. In doing so, the body becomes easier and technologically advanced, design time is reduced, and they can produce in small factories in strictly necessary quantities. At the same time, easier to give an identity separate brands that "Cadillac" remained "Cadillac" and "Skoda", "Skoda".
"If our vision of the future is true, Burns concluded, and we believe it is true,"Auto"could turn the whole automotive industry. This machine is not just a new chapter in automotive history, it was a new, if considered from the previous 100 that odd years of the first. the twentieth century was the century of the internal combustion engine. XXI century will fuel cells. "
Well, all this is very similar to the truth. Obstacles largely only one already existing set of gigantic mining and refining of gasoline. Indeed, the framers' Auto "said another, and that the machine can serve as a mobile heat and power, and highlighting the housing obogrevaya her employer! Imagine, in which "enthusiastically" to listen to all these tickling owners of oil companies? But remember, as General Motors did not charitable society, and one of the largest industrial empires the world, and Mr. Vegonir not chudak- professor, inventor of alternative energy. They all can happen.
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