A closer look at Mercedes-Benz Avatar concept car — Transcript

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1. 0:00see act is all about the mold crazy and
2. 0:03fantastical and here in the North Hall I
3. 0:06have found probably one of the wildest
4. 0:09craziest things all over the show this
5. 0:11is the mercedes-benz avatar concept car
6. 0:16it actually is a ZTR or avatar for short
7. 0:21but it stands for advanced vehicle
8. 0:23transformation let's just take a look at
9. 0:25this incredible piece of machinery now
10. 0:28obviously content means that this isn't
11. 0:29a real thing yet but it's all about
12. 0:31sustainability so let's go into some of
13. 0:34the elements to this wild crazy car so
14. 0:37we take a look at some of the shapes and
15. 0:38the lions obviously very inspired by
16. 0:41Avatar movie all of the natural forms
17. 0:44and this is actually a collaboration
18. 0:46with James Cameron's avid
19. 0:48you can see with these kind of leaf
20. 0:50shaped seats they look very similar to
21. 0:52those cocoons that the Navi would sleep
22. 0:54in also inside there are a lot of cool
23. 0:57tech elements now as you can tell there
24. 0:59is no steering wheel inside and that's
25. 1:02deliberate because it's self driving or
26. 1:04autonomous there is a center control
27. 1:07panel you can see that kind of accordion
28. 1:09shaped seam right there that you should
29. 1:12be looking at right now with the
30. 1:13mercedes-benz logo on top of it now what
31. 1:16this is it's kind of your control panels
32. 1:18for accessing all of the cars functions
33. 1:19you put your hand on that it will be
34. 1:22able to read biometrics such as your
35. 1:24heart rate and control the car
36. 1:26accordingly also when you lift your palm
37. 1:29up off that it will actually form
38. 1:32projections on the palm of your hand and
39. 1:34presumably to be able to give you some
40. 1:36extra levels of control there's also
41. 1:39this display this projection display
42. 1:41that's giving you some extra information
43. 1:42and some of the experience that is to
44. 1:45with a baton fill man
45. 1:49it's getting loud and bold in here
46. 1:52because this is actually in the middle
47. 1:54of a live demonstration of the
48. 1:56cock-block lots of people around getting
49. 1:59a look this is one of the hottest things
50. 2:01here on the show floor at CES 2020 let's
51. 2:05take a look around the back of the
52. 2:06mercedes-benz avataan now take a look at
53. 2:08these 30 panels of these kind of like
54. 2:11they look almost like scales and they're
55. 2:14reacting and responding to the
56. 2:15environment now Mercedes says that these
57. 2:18could be used for a number of different
58. 2:19things like working out responses to
59. 2:21pedestrians and things like that at the
60. 2:24moment they just look incredibly cool
61. 2:26this is one of the neatest things that
62. 2:29I've seen old shirt obviously the lights
63. 2:32and the range of motion around the back
64. 2:35this thing can go around
65. 2:37apparently 400 miles on one charge let's
66. 2:40take a little closer look at the wheels
67. 2:42cuz this is where the real exciting
68. 2:44stuff happens as well now these wheels
69. 2:47have been inspired by the shapes of
70. 2:49those giant seeds from the tree in
71. 2:51Avatar with the lights and all of the
72. 2:54movement and you know they're not just
73. 2:56static they actually work as wheels to
74. 2:58you know turn but the most interesting
75. 3:00thing about them is that they actually
76. 3:02have more degrees of freedom so it can
77. 3:04have like a crab-like movement and they
78. 3:06can also rotate so the car can move not
79. 3:08only forwards and backwards and turn but
80. 3:09also move diagonally in sideways which
81. 3:12is kind of neat and if you saw the
82. 3:14Mercedes Benz
83. 3:16press conference you would have seen
84. 3:18this car actually moving like that it is
85. 3:21something while to behold but just
86. 3:23taking a look at this in real life right
87. 3:26in front of me this is just something
88. 3:29else now all of this is sustainable
89. 3:30materials this is all about nature and
90. 3:33and being at one with your environment
91. 3:35all of these materials so this is
92. 3:37supposed to be a color-changing carpet
93. 3:39it's obviously not doing it at the
94. 3:41moment but that's the concept behind it
95. 3:43the materials are all sustainable as I
96. 3:45mentioned there's this particular wood
97. 3:47paneling this is actually apparently a
98. 3:50very sustainable fairly recent wood that
99. 3:54has been harvested from Indonesia and
100. 3:56that's used in the flooring there as
101. 3:59well but just this is just like amazing
102. 4:02to look at just so many curves here the
103. 4:05mercedes-benz Avatar concept car here at
104. 4:09CES 2020 taking your first look at it
105. 4:13it's dark in here it's kind of amazing
106. 4:16to have all of these lights and
107. 4:18everything around I'm gonna stay here a
108. 4:20while and be at one with my car because
109. 4:23that's the point it's all about
110. 4:24sustainability it's all about being at
111. 4:26one with the machine make sure to stay
112. 4:28tuned for more from CES 2020 right after
113. 4:32this