5 future car technologies that will be commonplace within a decade

5 future car technologies that will be commonplace within a decade

What would be mainstream in the motoring industry in the next couple of years?

Predictions are, by definition, hit or miss. And, if commentators from the 1950s were anything to go by, mostly miss – otherwise, we would all be zipping around in flying cars today. To avoid the same embarrassment, The Peak eschews blind optimism and scours laboratories for promising, nascent technologies, to make educated guesses on what would disrupt the automotive mainstream within 10 years. Here is what we found.

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02: SCREEN PROTECTION

Let’s be brutally honest. While augmented reality (AR) exists today, it serves little purpose beyond providing amusement. Cars, on the other hand, have a large windshield and surfeit of space for computers, a platform ripe to become the next killer platform for AR. Its precursors are here: small heads-up displays are commonly available, but they are little more than fancy speedometers and navigation maps. More novel are infrared detectors, lidars and radars, which sense traffi c signs, encroaching vehicles and even straying animals. The next step would be to combine and supersize such systems, by overlaying contextual information on top of what a driver sees in real life. Imminent collisions, for example, could be highlighted in red, or lanes suitable for the next turn could be lit up in green. Equipment suppliers Harman, Continental and Visteon have been showing off such concepts.

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