One person passenger electric car "Smart INSECT" which recognizes the owner's face, opens the door in response to the gesture

A concept model of a compact electric vehicle (EV) that supports driving through the Toyota Smart Center on the cloud with technology such as motion sensor, voice recognition, destination prediction setting based on behavior prediction is called "Smart INSECT" is.

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Demonstrating the sequence of flowing by recognizing the owner of a car approaching with a smartphone and entering the authentication mode and opening the door in the direction of waving the hand can be seen in the following movie .

Demonstration of Smart INSECT electric car that can be operated with gesture - YouTube


The Toyota booth where the exhibition is held is as follows.


The appearance of "Smart INSECT" looks something like this.



Compared to men standing by side, you can see that the car body is quite compact.


The concept is "cloud · transporter which interacts with people, home, society".


The car body is "ComsIt is based.


Gull wing doorEquipped.



It looks like this from behind.


Cameras and sensors that capture the backward situation are attached to the roof.


Equipped with a display for sending messages to people standing behind and driving cars.


At the bottom of the light, there is a communication LED, and the owner emits light when sending an operation from outside the car and sends a message.


front wheel.


The seat was for one person, and when I actually pushed it with my fingers, the backrest etc was comparatively hard.


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At the bottom of the windshield is also equipped with a display for displaying messages for those who are outside the car.


This time we need a car camera etc. for demo use, so we are pulling in cables from the floor and powering etc.


The pedals of the accelerator and the brake are as follows.


Side brake is like this.


There is a table on the dashboard for placing smartphones.


When I actually saw the demo, the response speed was late compared to Apple's Siri (voice control) etc. It was the impression that it has not reached the practical level yet. However, as improvement progresses, as soon as the technology is put into practical use on the day the technology of waving a hand to the car or speaking to a person to get the door open and navigating to the intended place just to talk to the person It seems not to be far.