WASHINGTON — General Motors has unveiled a driverless concept car so stylish that it looks as if it’s聽from the pages of science fiction.
The Chevy FNR (for Find New Roads) is not the imagining of an artist; it’s a real concept car.
Blue crystal laser headlights peer out from beneath聽the backswept windshield, which聽extends聽to the very聽nose of the car. The聽capsule-shaped car features dragonfly wing聽doors which open upward. And it has聽magnetic wheels without hubs that are driven by electric motors.
Inside, the two front bucket seats聽swivel 180 degrees to face聽rear-seated passengers in the driverless car.
the Chevy FNR looks like a “Hot Wheels car for The Matrix.”
The concept car was unveiled this week in Shanghai, designed by the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center, a joint venture with GM.
Google revealed in 2010 that it was working to develop a driverless car. Other car manufacturers have jumped into the development stream, and聽engineers say they believe driverless cars聽will be in the traffic mix in the 2020s.
Watch a video about the car:
