现代公司发布可行走新车

我们都阅读过相关研究，或听自己的医生唠叨过：不要整天坐着，应该站起来，走动走动。这个观念在多年前便已盛行。然而我们首次看到，不光是人类，连车都已经逐渐意识到行走所具有的各种福利。

在上周一的美国消费电子展上，现代公司向美国民众展示了Elevate车型。它是一款能行走的概念车，拥有在电影中才会出现的四条可折叠机械腿和外观。（如果2014年CES提词机故障都能让《变形金刚》的导演迈克尔·贝“崩溃”，我们很想知道他看到这些汽车后会有什么反应。）

现代的Elevate概念车不仅仅能够应对紧急局面，它拥有带机械腿的车轮，能够让用户驾驶、行走，甚至是翻越最为危险的地貌。该车将于2019年@CES与世人见面。

——现代汽车（英国）（@Hyundai_UK）2019年1月8日

虽然现代并没有展示全尺寸的原型车，但Elevate模块化的设计及其迅速响应自然灾害和人道主义危机的预期能力给人们留下了深刻的印象。

现代公司副总裁兼现代风投创新中心CRADLE负责人约翰·苏在一篇新闻稿中表示：“当海啸或地震发生时，当前的救援车辆仅能够将最先响应的救援人员送至受灾地区边缘，然后他们必须步行完成剩余的路程。Elevate在驶往现场后可以在洪灾废墟或混凝土碎块中穿行。”

苏继续说道：“这一技术的用途不仅仅局限于紧急事件。全球各地无法使用轮椅坡道的残障人士可以使用Elevate自动驾驶车型，并让它们行走至前门，然后水平对接前门路面，以便残障人士乘坐轮椅进入房间中。”

不过，当前工作的车模只有真车的八分之一。

——antuan goodwin (@antgoo)2019年1月7日

现代公司因创新而著称。201812月，这家汽车巨头发布了一款车型，能够让驾驶员使用指纹而不是钥匙来开、关和驾驶汽车。

虽然现代没有像其竞争对手福特公司一样，进入IFI Claims 2018年专利授权量榜单的前十之列，但现代并非是在偷懒。该公司去年申请了1369项专利，排名第19位，在通用汽车公司之上，后者申请了1046项专利，排名27位。（财富中文网）

译者：冯丰

审校：夏林

We’ve all read the studies—or heard our doctors’ diatribes—telling us to stop sitting all day, stand up, and start walking around. The movement has been going on for years. But for the first time, it appears as if the benefits of walking has trickled down from humans to cars.

At CES Monday, Hyundai introduced Americans to the Elevate, a walking concept vehicle with four robotic, bendable legs and a look made for the movies. (If Transformers director Michael Bay had a “meltdown” over a teleprompter issue at CES in 2014, we wonder what his reaction would have been to these puppies.)

Going well beyond emergency situations the Hyundai Elevate Concept uses wheels with robotic legs allowing users to drive, walk or even climb over the most treacherous of terrains. To be unveiled at @CES 2019.

— Hyundai Motor UK (@Hyundai_UK) January 8, 2019

Although Hyundai didn’t present a full-scale prototype, the mock-up design of the Elevate as well as its intended purpose to rapidly respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crises are impressive.

“When a tsunami or earthquake hits, current rescue vehicles can only deliver first responders to the edge of the debris field. They have to go the rest of the way by foot. Elevate can drive to the scene and climb right over flood debris or crumbled concrete,” John Suh, Vice President and Head of Hyundai CRADLE, said in a press release.

“This technology goes well beyond emergency situations. People living with disabilities worldwide that don’t have access to an ADA ramp could hail an autonomous Hyundai Elevate that could walk up to their front door, level itself, and allow their wheelchair to roll right in,” Suh continued. “The possibilities are limitless.”

But right now, they're working at 1/8th scale.

— antuan goodwin (@antgoo) January 7, 2019

Hyundai is known for innovation. In December 2018, the auto giant premiered a vehicle that lets drivers use fingerprints instead of keys to open, lock, and drive their car.

Although the car company didn’t break the top ten in research service IFI Claims’ list of companies that filed the most patents in 2018—unlike its competitor Ford Motor Co.—Hyundai certainly wasn’t slacking. The company came in 19th after filing 1,369 patents last year, topping No. 27 General Motors, which filed 1,046.