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 monitors the edge of the road and centre line, a warning sound
will emanate if the car veers from its path and an intermittent vibration will
be felt in the steering wheel. Additional censored can be used to enhance the
accuracy in bad weather. A 360 network of radar and laser sensor will eliminate
blinds spots.
Night vision
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Conventional night
vision system uses head-up display and shows real images, a future version will
be a picture processing concept that converts poorly visible objects into
warning depicted by a full width LED bar that will run at the bottom of the windshield,
indicating at a glance the number of objects and their approximate position.
Intelligent parking
assist
The new technology will
help cars neatly steer themselves backward into a parking lot without the
driver even touching the steering wheel. IPA will need to be manually
programmed before it swings into operation. Once this is don you can just sit
back and let electronics do all the work. IPA technology is smart and can parallel
park the car or conduct a 90 man oeuvre into a driveway or garage.
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Active cruise control
This system will
combine distance sensing radar based cruise control with a multi beam laser
that will register the width of and positions of the other moving objects,
taking the sting out of tedious stop-and-go driving by reaccelerating in sync
with the vehicle in front.
An international
consortium of auto manufactures is coming up with standards for a system where
car-to-car communication system will be possible. The vehicle will poll the
oncoming traffics and pass data from car to car and alert drivers up and down
the highway to accidents and weather conditions.
Cars will collect
data that can be shared with dealers, manufactures and even other vehicles. Dealers
will be able to do remote diagnostics to help troubleshoot a roadside
breakdown.
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