You can now take your Range Rover Sport for a spin, without opening the car door.<\/p>\n
Land Rover’s smart motor can be started, dropped into gear \u2013 and driven down the road using only a smartphone app.<\/p>\n
The technology spookily similar to the gadget featured in Tomorrow Never Dies, which sees Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond pilot a BMW 750i from the backseat using a portable remote.<\/p>\n
However \u2013 Land Rover have demoed the same technology using only a modern smartphone app.<\/p>\n
From within the smartphone software, drivers are able to reverse, brake, accelerate and steer the \u00a360,000 off-road machine.<\/p>\n
Land Rover has implemented a five mile-per-hour speed limit to ensure safety when the car is being piloted remotely. If you drop your phone \u2013 the car stops dead in seconds.<\/p>\n
Land Rover reckon there are many reasons why driving your car remotely could be useful.<\/p>\n
The driver could use their smartphone to reverse the car out of a parking space if someone has parked too close for them to open the door or if you’ve got a tight parking space at your home.<\/p>\n
But where Land Rover really see this technology being useful is when cars are taken off-road.<\/p>\n
Drivers could use the app to become their own off-road spotter, guiding the car over obstacles from outside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
It’s certainly clever tech and, with development, you could be controlling you car via a smartphone within the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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