Smart Cars: Smart Than Us

Technology in cars can go both ways. Internet phone services might not be as useful as braking assist in terms of saving your life and others. The technology in cars has improved and been added in at an exponential rate. Some of the collision preventive tech is adaptive cruise control which eases off the accelerator if it senses a car in front that is going more slowly as well as a sensor that engages the breaks which stops the car before you plow into another car that just came out of nowhere. Other alerts include blind spot indicators and lane correction that will let you know if you are changing lanes unexpectedly, such as a sleepy driver, and some model will even nudge the car back into the lane. The catch here being that the features are going to cost you several more thousands that you were going to spend but in many cases it is very much worth it. In time the features will become standard and the prices will inch on down. For example, the rear-view cameras are going to be required on every new car built starting in 2018. Car will become much more than just transportation.