DRIVING the Future Mercedes with NO Steering Wheel!! Vision AVTR Review — Transcript

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1. 0:00this is really cool
2. 0:03this is probably like a video game
3. 0:08but i think maybe we need a new driving
4. 0:09test for this huh i guess
5. 0:16hey guys welcome back to remove before
6. 0:18race i'm your host raz
7. 0:19and we have something extremely
8. 0:21extremely special today
9. 0:23you can see it's detecting my presence
10. 0:25and it started to turn on
11. 0:26it is one of the most futuristic cars
12. 0:28that mercedes-benz
13. 0:30have ever designed and created and
14. 0:32perhaps the one that is the most forward
15. 0:33thinking
16. 0:34not only in the way that it's designed
17. 0:36the way the wheels are the way the cabin
18. 0:37is
19. 0:38but even the way that it drives and that
20. 0:40is something very exclusive and special
21. 0:42that i'll get to show you later it is of
22. 0:44course the vision avtr
23. 0:46which has been clearly inspired by the
24. 0:48movie avatar
25. 0:50of james cameron's and of course we're
26. 0:52getting the sequels next year which
27. 0:53we're all very excited about
28. 0:54so i cannot wait to show you what this
29. 0:57one of the coolest
30. 0:58mercedes concept cars in the world can
31. 1:00do let's dive straight in
32. 1:13[Applause]
33. 1:19so guys vision avt-r it is something
34. 1:22that is
35. 1:23completely different to what you would
36. 1:24have seen before in a concept car
37. 1:26and when you look at something like this
38. 1:28you really do think well is it actually
39. 1:30going to work
40. 1:31and on the face of it it doesn't really
41. 1:32look like it does it but this is
42. 1:34actually a drivable car
43. 1:35and i will show you that later on but
44. 1:37first to really appreciate kind of
45. 1:40how mercedes have designed the various
46. 1:42bits of this in conjunction not only
47. 1:43with the movie but
48. 1:44nature and this idea of future and
49. 1:46forward thinking
50. 1:47just a quick reminder of the other
51. 1:49awesome concept cars that mercedes have
52. 1:51put out
53. 1:51in recent times now i do love
54. 1:53mercedes-benz to my core
55. 1:55so i am a little bit biased about this
56. 1:57but i absolutely love for example
57. 1:59the my back vision concepts that they
58. 2:01had recently which were a lot more
59. 2:03familiar in the way that they are normal
60. 2:05cars with wheels etc
61. 2:07but very muscular in the way that they
62. 2:09look both the coupe
63. 2:10and the cabriolet and they are truly i
64. 2:12think my favorite two concept cars
65. 2:14ever now when you look at the avt-r just
66. 2:17generally in its shape from that
67. 2:18position it's very muscular still yes
68. 2:22you haven't got like a huge bonnet like
69. 2:24in
70. 2:24the vision my backs but you have got
71. 2:27very very strong shoulders both on the
72. 2:28front
73. 2:29and on the rear and generally it's a
74. 2:31very aerodynamic looking shape generally
75. 2:33you know it's a mercedes-benz
76. 2:35just staring at it but as i said to
77. 2:37really appreciate this car
78. 2:39come a bit closer let's have a look
79. 2:41around properly and i'll show you every
80. 2:43little bit
81. 2:43before we go out and see how this thing
82. 2:45actually drives
83. 2:48so guys here we have the avtr we've
84. 2:50actually brought it inside of the hanger
85. 2:51that we had it in front of just now
86. 2:53just so you can appreciate these leds
87. 2:55now you know
88. 2:56the car was sleeping and as we've
89. 2:58approached it
90. 2:59now the lights have turned on now let's
91. 3:02start as we normally would
92. 3:03with the front end that face should in
93. 3:07fact look very familiar to you because
94. 3:08that is the face
95. 3:10of the eq family first seen in for
96. 3:13example the eqc
97. 3:14but more recently seen in the eqs in its
98. 3:17gorgeous gorgeous form i believe
99. 3:20that is the face of eq so that is
100. 3:23unmistakable and you'll notice the lines
101. 3:25as you get in closer next to the lighted
102. 3:27star
103. 3:28and you're going to see lines like this
104. 3:30all over the car it's kind of like a
105. 3:32theme
106. 3:33of how the car is powered how it's
107. 3:35powerful how it's kind of sucking in
108. 3:37power from nature that's a nice sight to
109. 3:40see that you would find in your normal
110. 3:41mercedes-benz as well
111. 3:43and the paint finish very similar to
112. 3:44alubim silver as you would have seen on
113. 3:46the sls
114. 3:47of old now as we come around probably
115. 3:50one of the biggest highlights of the car
116. 3:52itself
117. 3:53which is the really interesting wheels
118. 3:56now these are based on the wood sprites
119. 3:57from avatar
120. 3:58and as you can see in the standard form
121. 4:00they kind of glow blue
122. 4:02which is really quite interesting and
123. 4:04they can do all sorts of interesting
124. 4:05things i'm going to show you some of the
125. 4:07safety features later
126. 4:08but they do show different elements as
127. 4:11well
128. 4:12so for example we could show the first
129. 4:15one i believe was air
130. 4:17which is showing now and then we have
131. 4:20water like spring water you can see it's
132. 4:21kind of flowing out
133. 4:23the one after that is earth
134. 4:27which shows all the colors of avatar and
135. 4:29the earth etcetera
136. 4:30and finally the last one is fire which
137. 4:33you would expect to be
138. 4:34red but it's not it's more like
139. 4:36pulsating energy instead
140. 4:38which is cool now of course this lighted
141. 4:40star in the middle
142. 4:41as well and what i found really
143. 4:43interesting is in fact the tyre
144. 4:45which is not your traditional tyre again
145. 4:47those lines looks a bit more
146. 4:49organic and look you'll see a little
147. 4:52mercedes-benz star
148. 4:53hiding in there like you have in the f1
149. 4:55cars that brings us then to
150. 4:57the really interesting interior you're
151. 5:00very much connected to the interior
152. 5:01even outside of the car you see so much
153. 5:04of it
154. 5:05and it's this concept of linking the
155. 5:07outside world in nature
156. 5:09with the internal occupants so what
157. 5:11we're going to do is now we're going to
158. 5:12dive in and check out some of the
159. 5:13highlights
160. 5:14of the interior so let's head inside now
161. 5:17we're going to get the doors
162. 5:18open
163. 5:21which is a very cool process in itself
164. 5:24you'll notice straight away first of all
165. 5:25your typical ambient lighting like you'd
166. 5:27find even
167. 5:28in today's mercedes-benz cars but this
168. 5:30is a very special interior
169. 5:32as you can see very concept car probably
170. 5:34not all that practical in reality but
171. 5:37what this shows is a two plus two
172. 5:39arrangement in a fairly sporty looking
173. 5:40car
174. 5:41we've got dynamica if you've heard me
175. 5:43say that before you find that in all of
176. 5:45your amg's it's another word for
177. 5:47man-made alcantara type leather race tex
178. 5:51if you're into your porsches so that is
179. 5:53what this material here is but more
180. 5:55interesting than that
181. 5:56this rear material is made of like dead
182. 5:58fishes essentially it's all recycled
183. 6:00and we've got this is not real wood here
184. 6:04it does give a very nice kind of boat
185. 6:06like finish that you find in a really
186. 6:08expensive yacht or something
187. 6:09but it's in fact rattan like you have on
188. 6:11outdoor furniture
189. 6:13and then there's so much rose gold
190. 6:15everywhere and you know that's a typical
191. 6:17sign of mr gordon wagner and his
192. 6:19influence
193. 6:20on any bit of mercedes concept car but
194. 6:23as we said yes it's got
195. 6:24two plus two design that's interesting
196. 6:26we've got this kind of curvature
197. 6:28that goes around the car and there's a
198. 6:30line of rose gold
199. 6:32that connects the outside to the inside
200. 6:36and connects the rear passenger seat
201. 6:38to the headrest of the front passenger
202. 6:41and it's this whole idea of connecting
203. 6:43the front passengers to the rear and the
204. 6:45entire inside compartment
205. 6:47to the outside world so i don't claim to
206. 6:50know
207. 6:51what that means but essentially you can
208. 6:53get this idea of like
209. 6:55nature merging with technology which is
210. 6:57quite cool
211. 6:59right guys now we're gonna head inside
212. 7:01now everything is run by this center
213. 7:03merge controller if you like that's what
214. 7:06they call it because it merges
215. 7:07the driver with the vehicle now to wake
216. 7:10up the car all i need to do is bring my
217. 7:12hand
218. 7:12close to the merge device and there you
219. 7:15will see
220. 7:16it's raised and look at the energy
221. 7:19coming out of that
222. 7:20so-called energy anyway and there you
223. 7:22see the world of avatar
224. 7:23now this is not a screen as you would
225. 7:26normally see it this
226. 7:27is more like what's that old saying god
227. 7:29does not build in straight lines
228. 7:30this is very much like that this is a
229. 7:32screen that is instead curved much more
230. 7:34like nature
231. 7:35now you can see the vehicle in there
232. 7:38moving through the world
233. 7:41which is very cool but there's no
234. 7:43buttons so how do you make selections
235. 7:45so what i'm going to do i'm going to
236. 7:46raise my hand here
237. 7:48then you'll see the selections come up
238. 7:51different ones
239. 7:53we're going to choose this one perhaps
240. 7:57you see you will find a tree here that
241. 7:59was very famous in avatar
242. 8:00when you choose that you can see the
243. 8:02pulse went through the car
244. 8:05and we wind up oh i chose the other one
245. 8:08i chose the mountains
246. 8:10we've ended up in the mountains here of
247. 8:12avatar
248. 8:14as you can see and that is kind of how
249. 8:17the selection process works
250. 8:19very simple you just go through
251. 8:22different selections here i'm going to
252. 8:23show you an animal
253. 8:24it's the banshee i believe
254. 8:27there you see the banshee turned up
255. 8:30completely different way of interacting
256. 8:32with the car very futuristic
257. 8:34very forward thinking now let's go and
258. 8:36check out the rear
259. 8:37so guys now we're approaching the rear
260. 8:39you can see kind of the flaps
261. 8:41waking up that was pretty awesome wasn't
262. 8:43it and did you see how the
263. 8:44rear light turned on now that rear light
264. 8:47again
265. 8:48if you think of the old mercedes
266. 8:49concepts that we've seen should be
267. 8:50pretty familiar
268. 8:51we've got a lighted rear mercedes star
269. 8:54as well
270. 8:54you can see how the ambient lighting
271. 8:56kind of hits the floor almost like a
272. 8:58welcome light as well which is awesome
273. 9:00more interesting telling you though
274. 9:02about these fins they serve many
275. 9:03purposes
276. 9:04for example aerodynamic purposes you can
277. 9:07imagine them
278. 9:08being used to increase downforce but
279. 9:10also let's say if you're braking
280. 9:12with the car look at that they turn red
281. 9:14like a brake light
282. 9:15and so do the wheels which is again
283. 9:17incredible it's good safety
284. 9:18it looks great but it also has a
285. 9:20function as well
286. 9:22so these again inspired by nature the
287. 9:26designer first sketched them and then
288. 9:27the engineers got to work on well how
289. 9:29would this be useful
290. 9:30and well there you go just in what i
291. 9:32don't know would you call it a diffuser
292. 9:34but you've got
293. 9:35these flowing energy lines and these
294. 9:37increase in speed
295. 9:38the faster you're going again it's kind
296. 9:40of a signal to the rest of the world
297. 9:41what's happening and
298. 9:43really stunning really something that we
299. 9:44haven't seen before but to really
300. 9:46appreciate this is to actually see the
301. 9:48car driving
302. 9:50so let's jump in right now
303. 9:57so guys here we are inside the vision
304. 9:59avt-r
305. 10:00i'm here with head engineer of the
306. 10:03electric
307. 10:04drivetrain element which is boris boris
308. 10:06thank you for
309. 10:07uh showing us around hey nice having you
310. 10:10thank you
311. 10:10um it looks like we're in the future
312. 10:13right now huh
313. 10:14this is incredible so can you tell us a
314. 10:17little bit about how
315. 10:18this works in terms of driving yeah sure
316. 10:20now we're driving
317. 10:22um with the emerge controller
318. 10:25so there are no steering wheels no brake
319. 10:27or gas pedal
320. 10:28yep it's just by placing your hand on
321. 10:32this nice device
322. 10:34you can drag like a normal car just
323. 10:37pushing it backwards
324. 10:38it's at a range or pushing forward and
325. 10:41going
326. 10:41through the corners or tilting edge so
327. 10:44it does turn
328. 10:45pretty directly doesn't it yes because
329. 10:47we got um steering in front and in the
330. 10:49back
331. 10:50yeah and this enables um
332. 10:54driving parallel i can show you just by
333. 10:56turning
334. 10:57oh wow so it's kind of like crab
335. 11:00stepping you guys call it right right
336. 11:02yeah and you told me which is quite cool
337. 11:04that pulling backward is
338. 11:06always breaking this yeah there's a
339. 11:09separate button for reverse
340. 11:10that's right correct okay and then even
341. 11:12in that mode
342. 11:14pulling back is still to break it's
343. 11:15always breaking for safety
344. 11:17which makes sense because then
345. 11:18psychologically as a driver or a pilot i
346. 11:21guess
347. 11:22um you always know braking is that
348. 11:24regardless of what you're doing
349. 11:25right how long did it take you to get
350. 11:27used to it as a driver
351. 11:29like doing this as opposed to did it
352. 11:31take a few goes to get your mind
353. 11:34i think it will happen in minutes yeah
354. 11:36it's pretty intuitive okay
355. 11:38um it's like um going from an old
356. 11:42mobile phone to a smartphone okay church
357. 11:45device
358. 11:47and in the beginning is kind of weird
359. 11:50because something new
360. 11:51yeah but now i think he won't go back
361. 11:55to an old mobile phone now so it's
362. 11:58pretty the same
363. 12:00and we also can um combine those things
364. 12:03yeah so it feels like you're drifting
365. 12:06that's cool
366. 12:11really looks like you're drifting
367. 12:16and then you get so much view of the
368. 12:18world as well thanks to
369. 12:20like the design of the front and the
370. 12:21glass doors as well yeah you're pretty
371. 12:24connected to a surrounding
372. 12:26like an amateur i mean you do have like
373. 12:29quite a large a pillar but then it makes
374. 12:30up for it with
375. 12:32obviously the glass doors which is cool
376. 12:34it's nice with the iphone's kind of wide
377. 12:35view you can get like
378. 12:36i can see the what we see which is the
379. 12:39door there the door there
380. 12:41the sky i guess it's also a little bit
381. 12:43like a video game right
382. 12:44yes so when you play a computer it's
383. 12:47yeah i think you will
384. 12:48get used to yeah i'm a 80s 90s kid and i
385. 12:52used to play with joysticks on the pc
386. 12:55so once you get used to using that you
387. 12:57can get used to using this as well right
388. 12:59so um i will stop cool and hand it over
389. 13:03to you
390. 13:03cool i think i'm ready for this i'm
391. 13:05ready for the future
392. 13:08[Music]
393. 13:11well that is interesting we've got some
394. 13:14velocity going
395. 13:16and then we turn it ah now i get it
396. 13:19now i get it
397. 13:23all right that's that's i'm getting used
398. 13:25to it now yeah
399. 13:28that's interesting and then break
400. 13:32and it breaks pretty well yeah this is
401. 13:34really cool
402. 13:36this is probably like a video game
403. 13:42but i think maybe we need a new driving
404. 13:43test for this huh i guess
405. 13:46that's
406. 13:50yeah it was uh a full day yeah of just
407. 13:53driving do you get a license at the end
408. 13:55of it um no but there are actually
409. 13:57maybe three people you know um which are
410. 14:00able to drive okay car can golden drive
411. 14:03it
412. 14:04um yeah he got also a short in
413. 14:07production
414. 14:07so boris thank you so much um i need to
415. 14:10congratulate you if i could shake your
416. 14:12hand i would but sadly i can't
417. 14:14but next time hopefully that we meet up
418. 14:17really great job on this
419. 14:18really impressive so guys there's a look
420. 14:20at actually driving the avtr and all of
421. 14:22the design of it i hope you enjoyed it
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