'E' is for entertainment and 'e' is for explorer: Rover One
Before launching a self-driving car, perhaps there is one more step to develop, where chances are there will be plenty of fun.
Driving your vehicle in the front seat,is going to be part of the past. Yes, you hear well!, you will be able to drive your vehicle ( a.k.a entertainment explorer USV unit) from whatever seat; most likely from a super comfortable rear seat , using a smart super screen. Well, there is a good reason to do it, since there is no needing for a frontal windshield anymore (should I say translucent windshield, most precisely ) , since the whole front of your vehicle will be like a kind of super shield-dome, with all the top notch electronics required to provide you with an excelent vision to drive, quite better than the human vision. Hence, the front part of your Ee-USV will provide all the required vision and navigation info, as well as a better passive safety system. Sure, the safety of your Ee-SUV is gonna be increased by a factor of 10, due that it would be possible to avoid the windshield and the fact that you are gonna be driving in the rear seat! Basically, you will have a quite comfortable mobile entertainment room,as comfortable as your living room,with the additional advantage that could be a full work station during the bumper to bumper traffic period. The human kind has been able to send sophisticated explorers to others worlds, those are being able to survive in hostile and remote environments , sending back valuable data to our host planet; well,we are going to use a fraction of that high technology in order to develop our explorer entertainment SUV, that will provide you with high quality time during commuting. The frontal shield-dome will have several cameras: the navigation camera for instance, will provide to the driver's screen a far superior quality view of the road ahead that the conventional windshield, because the electronic sensors will deliver precise data about location and distance of the other vehicles in real time. Ee will carrie two stereo pairs of navigation cameras, one pair each connected to the Ee's two redundant computers; on the other hand, the frontal hazard camera will provide valuable data to the dual central processor about the road ahead at bumper level in order to send in real time any potential alert. Finally, the Flir thermo-vision system will deliver a high quality navigation during the night. So, your Ee-SUV will be more close related to a mobile living room/work station than a regular vehicle it self. Try to imagine that you are comfortable siting in the rear seat ( kind of an airplane first class seat, that could be fully extended to a bed when required) using a smart screen and a joystick ( kind of jet fighter type or cat excavator type ) and suddenly you get stuck in a heavy traffic, then the central processor calculate the time you will be stuck , therefore you decide to put aside the control screen and prepare a dinner in a very comfortable environment , perhaps take a nap in a full extended position, listening the 'to do list' for your next day and getting the updates from your onboard computer regarding the traffic status, in order to be prepare in advance to commence again your journey. In other words, 'E' (E for entertainment) will provide you with a unique environment for a smooth commuting and 'e' (e for exploring) will provide you with all the necessary resources to give you the required peace of mind to deal with a potential difficult bumper to bumper heavy traffic day , as if you were stuck in other planet, perhaps MARS, but even so, you have your smart and powerful ally: Ee . By the way, the Ee (Rover One) will be powered by two electric engines and the space wich is usually reserved for the fuel tank will be occupied by a wáter tank, yes a wáter tank, because one of the coolest Rover1 features is the robotic hose, to get wáter (filtered wáter) in any given time. Therefore your Rover One (of course, here inspired by Tesla,Tesla Motors,Elon,Mars Curiosity, Apollo lunar rover and Nasa) will be able not only to spend electricity and wáter, but also to generate power or provide fresh wáter to your home in any given time.
