With the development of technology its no wonder that we see smart cars all over the world, but this time we have something special. This smart taxi comes from Germany and it drives itself without a driver.

This taxi drives itself on the streets of Berlin and it is developed by Germany’s Freie University. Laser, radar, sensor, as well as an iPad app from Appirion are used for navigation of this driverless VW Passat. All that you have to do in order to drive in one of these so called smart cars is to start an app on you iPad, and taxi will find you according to your GPS coordinates. After that, you just have to enter your desired location and you’re good to go.

Self-driving taxi from Germany’s Freie University sounds like the perfect future car, but it will take some time until standard taxis are replaced by such smart ones. Main concern is safety, of course, and the question is would you feel safe sitting in a taxi that has no driver?

[via Ubergizmo]