But while you wait for self-driving cars, you should know Nissan has created an Intelligent Parking Chair concept that parks itself at your desk upon hearing your hands clap.
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While vehicle parking with a single hand clap is yet to become a reality, the type of new technology that moves these chairs is the same as that now used in the X-Trail Hybrid and other Nissan vehicles. You need to have four special sensor-laden cameras in a room to help the chairs get around, though.
Auto giant Nissan has adapted its self driving vehicle technology – for office chairs. The chair includes a roller to automatically move 360 degrees paired with a system that indicates the target position.
“By day, these chairs are inanimate objects”, Nissan boasted in a press release. “By night, they park!”
The video demonstrates that the chairs are controlled via Wi-Fi and tracked by motion cameras.
So for now, office employees will have to manually push their chairs back under their desk.
“This is a very useful function, not only for those who are bad at parking, but also for skillful drivers who are exhausted and less focused after a long drive”, says one of the developers in the promotional video.
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This office technology makes it possible for innovative business to be freed from the trouble of arranging chairs each time they require a particular seating arrangement for a meeting or conference.
