Smart cars

The design concept for Smart cars began in the late 1980's. The Smart cars began with Nicolás Hayek, the man who invented Swatch watches. He wanted to make a small car that would be fuel efficient, environmentally responsible and easy to park in small spaces. The first smart car was created in 1994 and it went on sale in 1998 but Hayek was dissapointed with the use of a conventional engine. He wanted a hybrid or pure electric motor and the price of car which was higher than expected. There's also a project of Google related to Smart cars. The car's arrival marks the next stage in Google's self-driving car project which was born from the DARPA Grand Challenger for robotic vehicles in the early 2000's. It is the first truly driverless electric car prototype built by Google to test the next stage of it's five-year old self-driving car project.