{"id":899,"date":"2016-06-18T20:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2016-06-18T20:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:45:56","slug":"rolls-royce-unveils-its-first-driverless-car-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/rolls-royce-unveils-its-first-driverless-car-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Unveils Its First Driverless Car Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/450px-The-spirit-of-Ecstasy-Flying-Lady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/450px-The-spirit-of-Ecstasy-Flying-Lady-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"450px-The-spirit-of-Ecstasy--Flying-Lady\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/450px-The-spirit-of-Ecstasy-Flying-Lady-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/450px-The-spirit-of-Ecstasy-Flying-Lady.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Rolls-Royce Motor Cars unveiled its vision of \u201cthe future of luxury mobility\u201d at a concept car event at the Roundhouse arts venue in north London a few days ago.\u00a0The concept car is called Vision Next 100 and is the brainchild of Giles Taylor, director of design at Rolls-Royce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The concept vehicle would be powered by \u2018a zero emissions powertrain\u2019 and measures just over 19-feet long, according to a press release. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">luxurious car<\/a> comes with a canopy roof, covered wheels and a door on only one side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Vision Next 100 features an artificial intelligence-powered voice assistant and chauffeur named Eleanor. The virtual assistant is named after Eleanor Thornton, a British actress and artists\u2019 model who died nearly a century ago.\u00a0Eleanor was <!--more-->the inspiration for the flying lady, or &#8216;Spirit of Ecstasy&#8217;, the bonnet ornament on Rolls-Royce cars,\u00a0modelled in 1911 by sculptor and artist Charles Sykes.\u00a0The Voice of Eleanor could offer you advice on how to prepare for meetings, book hotels or advise on your wardrobe selection, and even help you select movies and music for the car&#8217;s entertainment system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rolls-Royce said that the immense V12 combustion engines and has powered its huge cars in recent years are &#8216;most unlikely to exist in the future.&#8217;\u00a0But the company didn\u2019t give futher information on how the new car would be powered.\u00a0The designers replaced the majority of the engine space with a luggage compartment and the bags will eject automatically when the car is stopped.\u00a0The interior, made only of \u2018the most precious and contemporary elegance\u2019 resembles a lounge with wooden panelling and deep-pile carpet.\u00a0A wool-and-silk-upholstered sofa sits opposite a high-definition television screen that can be used for watching films or to reveal the surrounding scenery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company said it may need another\u00a025 years before Vision Next 100 hits the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce Motor Cars unveiled its vision of \u201cthe future of luxury mobility\u201d at a concept car event at the Roundhouse arts venue in north London a few days ago.\u00a0The concept car is called Vision Next 100 and is the brainchild &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/rolls-royce-unveils-its-first-driverless-car-concept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}