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Future cars

The car technology is fast evolving and future cars will be packed with more computing power and will be designed to look after every need of the driver. Vehicles already have dozens of small computers, keeping an eye on everything from fuel consumption to suspension. Let’s look ahead and see how intelligent driver assistance systems will change the way you drive. Electronics will replace most of the mechanical systems, even the mid range model will be fitted with sensors, cameras, computer screens and wifi connections. Safety systems will move from passive systems like air bags to active systems that use radars and cameras to watch out for dangers. Most of the future cars will have hard drivers, used as core of the car’s entertainment system, storing hour’s music and video. This will combine with sensor and mapping technology to keep track of every twist and turn. This hard drive will form a sort of black box recorder for the cars. Lane departure warning Two integrated cameras will mo...

Peugeot 307cc

Arguably Peugeot is the most innovative European maker of appealing convertible cars and the latest 307cc is no exception to the claim. It meets the needs of those who required a true 4 sweater cabriolet and also those who seek a genuine coupe. It can perform as the second car of a two-car couple or single conveyance of a busy man or woman. That the 307cc has Gallic flair is indisputable. It has that indefinable chicanes associated with many things that are exclusively French, from clothes to perfume to cuisine. It has a sleek profile that sweeps from the low front end through the racked windscreen pillars across the retractable steel roof to a curved rear end. The steel roof retracts at the press of a button located between the front seats and takes less than 25 seconds and the metamorphosis from coupe to cabriolet can be achieved while still driving at speed up to 10km/hr. The steel roof retracts into the boot and the whole exercise is entirely automatic. On first impressions the int...