Scientists Working On Invisibility Cloaking Device, Possible Use In Automotive Industry?

Scientists Working On Invisibility Cloaking Device, Possible Use In Automotive Industry?

An eventful Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Park today saw Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg bring their MERCEDES GP PETRONAS cars home in fourth and fifth places, an improvement of one position on their respective grid placings. The pair had a fairly quiet race with Michael moving up to fourth briefly after a first lap battle with Jenson Button but he was unable to hold the position that he took in turn one. Michael made his only pit stop of the race on lap 14 with Nico following one lap later where a quick in-lap and excellent work from the pit crew kept him ahead of the chasing Robert Kubica. Rain threatened in the middle of the race but only a few light spots eventually fell around the circuit. The collision of the two Red Bulls on lap 40 promoted Michael to fourth place and Nico to fifth position where they remained until the chequered flag.

鈥淢y race started as I had hoped when I was able to catch Jenson right at the start. 鈥淚 am reasonably happy with fifth place today although it was an uneventful race for me. I was slightly faster than Michael for much of the race but it was not possible to overtake and I had to be careful as Robert was pushing hard behind me. 鈥淎 solid performance today in which we achieved the potential of the car with both drivers. We had a purposefully quiet early part of race as we were unable to challenge the leading group and therefore decided to save our tyres for the second half. Michael, Nico and the team did an extremely good job with the car that we had and once again our pit stops were very impressive. Compliments to them all today. 鈥淔ourth and fifth positions for Michael and Nico were the best results we could achieve today as our pace was only ok in the last third of the race. We are aware that we need further improvements and we definitely will get them.

Police could also pull up to the destination without being detected, such as raids or serving warrants on high profile suspects. Of course, this would have the potential of increasing the 鈥榓buse of power鈥?by crooked cops. So, it also comes with its own disadvantages. Finally, having an invisibility feature on your vehicle where you simply flip a switch or push a button, and your ride is see through. Well, that would just be a really cool feature in general. Especially for a showroom or events where you鈥檙e showing your car, but want to make a big entrance. Are Cars with Invisibility Cloaks in our near Future? When it comes to making cars, technology and features have came a long way all over the world. However, what if the feature to "cloak" your car and make it invisible was possible? Would you even feel safe behind the wheel of a fully transparent vehicle?

With the rate technology is advancing, this feature may be an option at some point. Although, while the technology currently exists, it probably wouldn't be legal. Remember in movies such as James Bond who has an invisibility cloak feature on his car in "Die Another Day", or like in Harry Potter when he uses the cloak to sneak around. Same difference only it's more technical and more expensive. Mercedes has been working on the technology for this feature over in Germany. They made a B-Class hatchback, well, turn invisible from a distance. However if this comes as a standard or add-on feature, it's not going to be cheap. 263,000 in flexible LED mats, and dozens of technicians to bring the idea to life, and it's only one side of the car! To bring this invisibility cloak to life Mercedes had to cover the car (in this case, half of it) with flexible LEDs.