New Technology in Cars – What We Can Look Forward to in 2010
New technology in cars enhances the safety and upgrades the driving experience. A 2000 car is going to be much different than one made for 2010. And, even cars that were made just five years ago do not have all of the features that one coming off the line this year will. You can expect that the new technology in cars this year will completely overhaul your driving experience. Here are some of the upgrades you can expect in the coming year.
While GPS devices have been standard on luxury cars for some time, now they are going down market and even mid-size cars have global navigation systems. Drivers will just have to enter their destination and they will be guided there through voice and visual directions.
Because gas prices are at an all time high, fuel economy is a concern for many drivers. New technology allows the car to switch off non-essential systems like the air conditioning in cooler times automatically.
Airbags have been standard features on cars for a couple of decades. But, in recent models, curtain airbags have become a new car safety feature. These reduce the likelihood of head injury to people in both the front and back seats.
Just like the “black boxes” in airliners, event data recorders can show proof of driving speed, the location of the car and other details. This feature is most useful for things like car insurance claims and legal issues related to accidents.
Don’t you hate having to pull over to the side of the road to change a tire? Now some hybrid owners won’t have to thanks to the “run flat” tire feature which allows them to drive up to 50 miles with no air pressure in their tires.
While some of the features listed in this article were inconceivable 10 years ago, we haven’t seen the end of new technologies in cars yet. In fact, cars that park themselves and even drive themselves are on the drawing boards.
The new technology in cars has increased at an amazing speed. Cars are now more comfortable and safer than ever before.
If you are looking for a cool new cars, I suggest you head on over to Edmunds.com for some great shopping.
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think the way this is going to play in the US market is something like this: Toyota cut corners on safety (no brake override) to push inadequately tested new technology into their cars to help them consolidate the demise of the domestic US car industry, which they are probably the largest external contributor to.
It may emerge that they knew or should have known that the problem was in the electronics, but because of the ghastly expense in changing the electronics in millions of cars, they decided to blame driver error, floor-mats and now gas-pedals and just push the problem forward in time. This seems to be how they handled their financial crisis (and the way the US is doing the same); maybe Toyota will become a zombie car brand surviving only with continual bailouts.
Whatever the actual truth is, if the perceived truth resembles what I have sketched out, they will get no mercy from the US government or car-buyers, meaning long F short TM.
Of course maybe TM will do something brilliant like televising the seppuku of their board along with offering free accident, life and burial insurance to all Toyota owners (well, maybe just the seppuku). If they just keep stonewalling on electronics and changing gas pedals, and a post-recall new-pedal Toyota minivan with a church youth group in it plunges into a ravine during a 911 call, they’re gone from this market for a generation, I would think.
Especially for you, Baruch:
Financial crisis
Stalled too many customers
CEO no more
http://www.businessinsider.com/sun-ceos-lame-twitter-haiku-is-precisely-why-he-had-to-sell-to-oracle-2010-2>
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