Intelligent Car Doors`

clipped from www.geek.com BMW experiment with intelligent haptic car doors clipped from www.gadgetted.com clipped from www.gadgetted.com Intelligent car door clams up when danger’s about clipped from news.cnet.com Prototype smart car door detects hazards clipped from www.newscientist.com Intelligent car door clams up when danger's about Accidents caused by car doors being opened into the path of oncoming vehicles or cyclists are common in cities. But these incidents could become a thing of the past, if doors that react to potential impacts catch on. The brainchild of Michael Graf at BMW and Michael Strolz's team at the Technical University of Munich, the "haptic" – technology that gives tactile feedback – doors could cut both road injuries and repair bills, they say. The current prototype looks like a normal car door, but an extra metal bar runs through its centre and connects to the car's frame between the hinges. In normal mode, the bar moves freely and doesn't affect the door's movement. clipped from www.lsr.ei.tum.de Dipl.-Ing. Michael Strolz clipped from portal.acm.org Haptic Rendering of Actuated Mechanisms by Active Admittance Control Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5024