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Armadillo-T: A car that folds in half for easy parking
Last updated on: August 11, 2014 12:39 IST
Image: Armadillo-T, a foldable electric vehicle.
Photographs: Reuters
Image: A woman walks past the folded Armadillo-T, a foldable electric vehicle, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, south of Seoul.
Photographs: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
The car can travel 100 km (62 miles) on a 10-minute charge and has a maximum speed of 60 km per hour (37 miles per hour).
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Photographs: Courtesy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
When it comes time to park, the rear of the vehicle folds over the front, almost halving its body length to just 1.65 metres (65 inches).
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Image: A researcher looks at the interior of Armadillo-T, a foldable electric vehicle, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, south of Seoul.
Photographs: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
"They can be parked in every corner of the street and buildings, be it apartments, shopping malls or supermarkets," said Suh In-soo, a professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology who led development of the car.
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Image: A researcher gets out of Armadillo-T, a foldable electric vehicle, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, south of Seoul.
Photographs: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Suh did away with rear-view mirrors by adding tiny digital cameras that show the back and sides of the car on a flat screen on the dashboard.
A Windows-based computer system communicates with the driver's smartphone and enables self-parking.
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Photographs: Courtesy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
The Armadillo-T cannot legally venture on to the road in South Korea because it does not meet certain mandatory criteria, such as withstanding crashes.
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Photographs: Courtesy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Suh said South Korea should relax rules for micro cars, exempting them from crash requirements because of their relatively low speeds.
A video demonstrating the prototype has been viewed more than 780,000 times on YouTube.
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