The three-person vans have three cameras: one on the roof, one on the dashboard and one that can be removed from the vehicle and transmit back to it from a distance of up to a quarter-mile.
Carmakers now have suppliers build seats, dashboards, roofs and doors, and buy them in modular units that are easily assembled and installed.
The camera is placed inside the experiment vehicle, and the images acquired include the road but also part of the experimental vehicle such as the dashboard, steering wheel, and roof areas.
This is not the first time Google has attempted to put information about its services under one roof – the company first launched Google Dashboard back in 2009 to allow users to keep track of their Google activity.
Once that's settled, you can set up your equipment, keeping in mind that the projector works best on the car roof with the inverter on the dashboard, and find a power source.
The Lux model I drove included saddle brown leather upholstery, real wood dashboard trim and a 57-inch-long glass roof that bathed the interior in natural light.
The Prima Edizione is an offshoot of the $17,500 Sport model, dressed up with a black-painted roof and beltline, special badges and seat trim, a numbered dashboard plaque and a power sunroof.
Every element seems to create another blind spot: the chopped roof and gun-turret windows; the chin-high windowsills, hood and dashboard; roof pillars the size of bridge supports.
As Watt searches the dashboard for a button to raise the convertible's roof, Wizner advises, "Just press everything all at once".
The plants also produce interior roof and door components for DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler and Dodge minivans made in St . Louisand dashboard instrument panels for the popular Jeep Liberty S.U.V. produced in Toledo, Ohio.
