Korean car giant Hyundai have fulfilled the dreams of every teenager who never learned the tricks to parallel parking in driving school by unveiling a car that can turn its wheels 90 degrees.
Selecting a spot, drivers of the new Hyundai Mobion simply press a button and a partially automated driving procedure will see the fully electric four-door “crab walk” into the spot.
Like AMG to Mercedes or Abarth to Fiat, Mobis is a special engineering workshop within Hyundai that’s producing a special range of cars based on existing Hyundai models and technology.
“The Mobion represents the embodiment of Hyundai Mobis’ core technologies, all of which are ready for immediate mass production,” Vice President Lee Seung-Hwan, the Head of Advanced Engineering at Hyundai Mobis confirmed.
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Part of the reason why the car can crab walk is because the engineers at Mobis replaced the large central electric motor with one small individual motor for each wheel. This design also allowed them to incorporate suspension, braking, and turning hardware into each wheel.
As a result, the Mobion can also strafe, or drive diagonally. It can turn on a dime 180 degrees with a turning circle of zero centimeters beyond the front and back bumpers.
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Since these movements would be incredibly unpredictable for fellow motorists, the Mobion carries its own set of special signaling indicators. Light projectors along the chassis will actually place a strobing arrow onto the roadway to indicate when the car is going to move in a strange direction.
Like all concept cars, there’s no indication of when the Mobion will be purchasable, however, T3 reports that a recent reveal from company affiliate Kia also featured a crab-walking electric car, suggesting that this isn’t just a showpiece to bump stock prices, but the future of parallel parking—at least in South Korea.
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