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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04: VEHICULAR WHATSAPP

Today’s high-end cars can change lanes and adjust their speed to suit traffic conditions without human intervention. Marques such as Tesla and Audi have models or prototypes that can travel long distances completely on their own. Yet, conservative regulations, in part spurred by drivers’ fear of loss of control, have stymied the wider adoption of self-driving technology. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) is an exciting new development in this arena that should help allay concerns. By relaying information with one another, cars can be made safer. Suppose a rogue driver runs a stop sign. Before you can even react, his car would have already sent a warning to yours. The brakes are automatically applied, and collision is avoided. Studies by the American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that V2V could reduce crashes by 79 per cent.

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