Development the Cockpit of the Autonomous Cars

Abstract

The evolution of cars has been notorious over the years, since the first four-wheeled car, that emerged in mid-1891 up to the present day, where it’s already possible to see semi-autonomous cars.

Currently, and with the constant automotive evolution, the cars practically drive themselves, without the need for users go with maximum attention in several situations. It was around 1980 that the first autonomous cars appeared, such as the NavLab which became a big innovation, evolving also the automotive industry and thus beginning the season of studies on autonomous cars. Nowadays Tesla is the great brand that innovated the auto-motive future, being that, is not completely autonomous, but in many situations the driver also becomes the passenger. It’s important to refer that Tesla until to these days only makes semi-autonomous cars, being which, several other tests are being conducted, not only by Tesla, but also by other big brands, like the Google, which is developing a totally autonomous car. Fully autonomous cars are still a big innovation, both for design, like for engineering, as it’s essential to gather the conditions so that these can be placed on the market, without any hindrance and protecting the Human from any dangers that may raise, and for that very reason, it’s necessary understand and study this new “era”. Throughout this dissertation several important aspects for the realization and creation of a cockpit for the completely autonomous car will be analyzed, by analyzing users, the cars, but also the legislation and ongoing tests about the subject. To deal with this new “era” in which cars can be shared, and drive themselves, it’s essential to understand how this can be possible, what steps are needed for implementation, and what the design and engineering of the fully autonomous cars might look like. The aspects of these vehicles will be analyzed as well as the users. Ultimately, virtual reality tests will be performed, to understand what the interior of the car will be like and understand how users behave inside an autonomous car.