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This was originally mentioned by Elon back in October at the launch of the Dual Motor Model S and Autopilot event. It was in reference to the cars new ability t
by beltex 12y ago
This was originally mentioned by Elon back in October at the launch of the Dual Motor Model S and Autopilot event. It was in reference to the cars new ability to park itself.
“Something I’d like to do, which I think many of our engineers will be hearing this in real-time, is have the charge connector plug itself in. Like an articulating, like sort of a snake, like Metal Gear Solid or something.”
http://youtu.be/FZ6lZJWL_Xk?t=9m23s http://youtu.be/FZ6lZJWL_Xk?t=9m23s
- hardwaresofton 12y ago"like Metal Gear Solid or something". My man-crush on this guy is only getting worse (better?). Realistically though, why not just have some sort of hard-arm extend? why the flexibility of a snake? with a little bit of OCR and an arm that can extend in length and rotate on an axis, it seems like you could get pretty close
- nkozyra 12y agoBecause then you'd have to park inline with the charger? A "snake" would give you some leeway.
- hardwaresofton 12y agoHaving the car park inline with a charger is a much easier problem to solve than getting a charger to start from the ground and find it's way up to a car. They could have the driver pull up into a generalized box/circle, and move the car forward automatically (polling with a laser (or OCR on the side of the charger) until it was in the perfect spot to be reachable. If cars can parallel park themselves, I think they can manage pulling up a given amount of feet. Also a little rotation on the car-facing end of the charger would help.