Sweden To The Rescue! Uniti, The Car That Will Save The World...
Sweden, that huggable nordic nation that gave us Ikea, the pirate bay, and squirrel stew...
A group of savvy millenials there decided to change the way we use our automobiles. Meet Uniti, the open-source and sustainable electronic vehicle that redifines the concept of 'cars'. Or, in the wordsof Teamuniti themselves:
Uniti is an electric city car that aims for holistic sustainability, a futuristic user experience and is developed in an open source manner. Follow our journey as we reinvent the automobile.
There are not a huge amount of details available about the project yet, but it's confirmed that they're stepping away from mechanical cars. Since the combustion engine is removed, there is no need to create a bulky car like our current roadcars. By also implementing drive-by-wire (just as Formula one cars or jet fighters), they are able to add a huge and futuristic heads-up display with augmented reality.
The coolest part about the project is their open-source nature. They are developing software and hardware along with the open-source community and making it available to other companies and the general public. This is made possible because they have to care little about strict regulations and laws. Their car is categorized as small city transport, with no intention to go on highways. As such, they are creating an entire new category of transportation.
The operating system is ROS, or the Robot Operating System, which is based on the long-term support version of Ubuntu Linux. Which is, hopefully, stable enough to let the car steer, accelerate, and brake all by itself. Yep, this is also an autonomous vehicle.
Check out this cool video that shows a VR drive with the Unity at cebit this year:
Uniti - Electric City Car- First VR Test at CeBIT from Wunderding.co on Vimeo.
I just can't get enough of projects such as this that have the capacity to disrupt our existing technology. You can become an investor in Unity right now, by visiting their crowd-source campaign here.
More info on the project:
http://www.unitisweden.com
https://www.facebook.com/teamuniti/
https://twitter.com/teamuniti
https://www.fundedbyme.com/en/campaign/7648/uniti-sweden-abs-first-prototype/
We need a completely world wide free market without a state to inhibit the human social evolution. It is guys like these who shows a glimpse of what is to come
Hooray for open source. Patents kill.
This, Ikea and many other things can only happen after too much fish oil/caviar, gun selling funded socialism and, of course, ripping of eastern neighbours!
Oooh I sense a lingering frustration. What kind of ripping off are we talking about here?
liiike centuries of colonisation without the poor victims even realising it. And its still kinda going on, without even the poor victims realising it! They even rip offed our linux for this innovation (lets ignore that linus torvalds is actually swedish speaking finn at this point)
Wow Sweden is sensational with its Uniti development, I like it - good post !
Maybe you want to read something from me about the BMW motorbike of the future ;-)
This is so awesome. Proud to be an Ubuntu user!
Do you want spaceship technology? Because this is how you get spaceship technology.
Yes, yes we do!