{"id":3322,"date":"2017-03-08T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2017-03-08T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:50:48","slug":"eyeing-future-problematic-past-vw-showcases-sedric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/eyeing-future-problematic-past-vw-showcases-sedric\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeing future after problematic past, VW showcases \u2018Sedric\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking well beyond its past problems, Volkswagen is projecting off into the future with its self-driving concept car featuring technologies that could someday work their way into the German automaker\u2019s brands like Audi, Bentley or Porsche.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a cheeky video riffing off Star Trek, Harry Potter and other pop-culture icons, CEO Matthias Mueller presented VW\u2019s first self-driving car, known as Sedric, on M?onday for a Geneva Auto Show media day.<\/p>\n<p>Sedric is fully electric, connected and autonomous, and picks up passengers at the touch of a button. The vehicle looks like a futuristic travel pod: No steering wheel, pedals or controls.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen has a badly dented image following the revelation that nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles deliberately circumvented U.S. emissions tests, and court cases continue against it.<\/p>\n<p>With VW\u2019s family set to roll out 60 new vehicles this year, Mueller said Sedric was part of a study aiming to show \u201chow a new, integrated mobility system of the future could function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfsburg-based company says it plans to launch more than 30 purely battery-powered vehicles by 2025, and \u201cbattery technology, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence will become new core competences\u201d for VW.\u2014AP<\/p>\n<p>Image: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking well beyond its past problems, Volkswagen is projecting off into the future with its self-driving concept car featuring technologies that could someday work their way into the German automaker\u2019s brands like Audi, Bentley or Porsche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}