Cutting Edge Technologies Soon to be Used in Cars

1. Scientists, along with Automobile engineers, are trying their best to develop technologically advanced cars in the near future. Many concept cars are already developed with breathtaking aerodynamic design for the purpose of drag elimination which will also be greener, thus allowing less fuel consumption and less CO2 emission. Biofuel cars and electric cars are already on the verge of making sensation on the streets from their concept stages as Te .....

Self Driving

2. Cars will be driven on their own in the near future as this system is already innovated underGoogle Self Driving Car project. This project was led by Google engineer, Sebastian Thrun, who is also the co inventor of Google Street View and former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The first autonomous car, a Toyota Prius modified with Google s experimental driver less technology was registered in April 2012 under Nevada De .....

Advanced Automotive Cameras

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V2V Connectivity

4. By 2040, half of all new cars coming off the production line will be hybrids with energy storing body panels according to Exxon Mobil. A group of nine auto manufacturers in Europe is currently researching body panels made of polymer fiber and carbon resin that can store energy and charge faster than conventional batteries. According to Volvo, these panels could reduce a car s weight by up to 15 percent. .....

Intelligent Braking System

5. With this technology, the brakes of the future cars will be automatically engaged without any driver input to prevent possible collisions, while the Brake Operated Pre crash Seatbelts will help to mitigate injuries. The vehicle itself will assists the driver s braking action according to the situation, whereas this system will also deliver a warning buzz to prompt action by the driver to help avoiding a rear end collision. This system depends on .....

Adaptive Cruise Control

6. Cruise control in Modern cars is more than just maintaining a constant speed. With the help of Adaptive cruise control, the car itself will be able to turn the steering. This technology uses sensor and radar systems to adjust the steering and the throttle of the car with changing traffic flow or road without any cooperative support from other vehicles like V2V connectivity. The control is imposed based on sensor information from on board sensors .....

Intelligent Headlights

7. High beam LED lights that detect oncoming vehicles and prevent the high beams from causing glare is already incorporated in many cars such as Mercedes, Audi and Mazda. This technology is capable of shading the precise areas of the headlight that would cause the other driver to experience glare when the system detects another vehicle coming from the opposite direction. On the other hand, active cornering headlight system processes the computerized .....

Augmented Reality Dashboards

8. Display Screen on the windshield is already designed for many high end cars. In the coming days, cars will be able to identify external objects in front of the driver and display information on the windshield about them. BMW has already implemented windshield displays in some of their vehicles which display basic information of the identified object, and now, they are also developing an augmented reality dashboard that will be able to recognize t .....

Night Vision with Pedestrian Detection

9. Cadillac first offered night vision in vehicles in 2000. An updated version of the night vision technology by Mercedes called Night View Assist Plus has been available in the S Class since 2005. In the more recent version of this technology which is already offered in the 2010 E Class, the new system will pinpoints pedestrians and highlight them on the dashboard display. BMW has a similar technology with a pedestrian identifier that also shows th .....

Traffic Signs Recognition

10. Some of the high end cars by Audi and Mercedes Benz use front facing cameras to identify road signs such as Speed limit or School Ahead or Turn Right/Left . The car can induct the speed limit right in the middle of the information cluster while combining the captured information from road signs with the data contained in the navigation systems. In cooperation by MobilEye and Continental AG, the first TSR systems which recognize speed limits .....

Air conditioned Seats

11. The standard model for air conditioned seats was developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This technology enables one to cool down the entire body of the car seats, such as the driver s as well as the passenger seats. The fabric used on the air conditioned seat is porous mesh to allow the air flow through it, whereas multiple fans inside the seat produce refrigerated air circulation. The porous covering of the seat allows body s natural .....