London, November 5 (ANI): The invisible car that James Bond drove in a high-speed car race across a frozen lake in 'Die Another Day' could soon be a reality.
Japanese researchers have developed a 'transparent' vehicle that projects the outside world on its interior, the Daily Mail reported.
It is being designed in Tokyo to help drivers with parking, projecting a panoramic view of the area behind the car onto the rear seats.
The view would include children, animals, or objects such as bollards that may be invisible below the rear window.
The car appears transparent from the inside, allowing drivers to 'see through' the rear bodywork.
How it works? Two cameras on the boot lid capture a full view of the scene behind the car.
According to The Sunday Times, the images are combined by computer and reflected onto the seats to create the illusion that the back of the car is transparent when looked at from the driver's seat.
Masahiko Inami, from Tokyo's Keio University, said, as reported in the newspaper: "The driver will feel like he's driving a glass car."
Inami works at the university where the technology was developed and fitted to a Toyota Prius.
A Japanese car manufacturer is said to be already working with the laboratory to put the technology into production.
Other ideas being developed by researchers include making other parts of the car transparent.
This encompasses a prototype transparent door that would enable lorry drivers to see if a cyclist pulled up alongside them at a junction.
This could potentially prove extremely useful in reducing road deaths. (ANI)
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