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Hyundai's incredible new 'crab-driving' prototype could completely change driving for good

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Updated 12:20 28 Apr 2023 GMT+1Published 12:13 28 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Hyundai's incredible new 'crab-driving' prototype could completely change driving for good

The change parallel parkers have long been waiting for.

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Hyundai's incredible new 'crab-driving' prototype might have just solved parking-anxiety forever.

The South Korean car company have introduced new 'e-Corner' technology, which allows all four wheels to swivel up to 90 degrees.

This means that your parallel parking worries might finally come to an end. You've got to see it to believe it:

Just picture it - you're driving around in the busy city centre, praying for a space to open up - and when you finally find the perfect parking spot, there is a queue of cars behind you and anxiety takes over.

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Rather than keeping calm, you seemingly lose all ability to park and, instead, go for a parking space 30 minutes away from your destination.

For people who find parking just as easy as riding a bike, this doesn't apply to you.

Hyundai's incredible new 'crab-driving' prototype might have just solved parking-anxiety forever.
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Hyundai Mobis, the carmaker's parts division, has uploaded a new clip of its e-Corner technology and honestly, it makes you think why hasn't this been implemented sooner?

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The car company uses the futuristic Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV as a demo to show how this new 'crab driving' actually works.

As shown in the clip above, the EV pulls up beside a open parking spot and all four wheels turn perpendicular to the curb - like a crab - and the car just slots right in.

Easy as pie.

The South Korea car company have introduced new 'e-Corner' technology, which allows all four wheels to swivel up to 90 degrees.
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Hyundai also showcased their new 'zero turn' tech, which allows the car to do a U-turn, without doing a U-turn.

The EV basically swivels its wheels outwards and as the front and rear wheels spin in opposite directions the car literally spins back on itself, which is pretty crazy.

Later on in the clip, we see the car do a 'pivot turn', where the front wheels keep stationary and the back wheels swing outwards.

This creates diagonal driving and helps swing the backside of the car into a parking space.

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Your parallel parking worries might finally come to an end.
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Cheon Jae-seung, the head of FTCI (Future Technology Convergence Institute), at Hyundai Mobis said: "We are idealizing the e-Corner System in order to meet the demands for future mobility.

"We will secure different types of customized mobility solutions that can be applied in autonomous driving and PBVs to solidify our vision of reaching new heights as a mobility platform provider."

Despite the incredible new tech, we're not sure if/when it will ever go into mass production.

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We'll keep our crab fingers crossed.

Featured Image Credit: Hyundai

Topics: Electric Cars

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish has an MA in Multimedia Journalism and is passionate about delivering sarcastic/mildly amusing content. After studying business at undergrad, Anish realised that he’d much prefer getting paid to rant about a topic, rather than to find a solution to it. Apart from that, he loves the ‘Four F’s’, as he calls it - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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