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“Our cars—like our dishwashers—have secretly been robots for a long time. We’ve had sensor-driven automatic braking systems for decades. The difference between then and now is the amount and visibility of the autonomy our robots have. It’s one thing to have a machine invisibly helping to slow your car, quite another to have it parallel parking for you.”
— Dan Saffer - Smart Design on What We’ll Really Want From Robot Cars
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Fiat’s ecoDrive technology is the world’s first in-car USB device that allows drivers to see how much CO2 their driving produces and then shows them how to reduce their emissions.
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Mitsubishi’s Emirai concept car interface.
“Its main feature is the display”.
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Cordon multi-target photo-radar can identify and track up to 32 vehicles across four lanes. It can instantly measure a car’s speed and position, stores violations on an SD card and can communicate with networked systems via Wi-Fi, 3G and WiMax. (via New Aesthetic)
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In the Mercedes-Benz ESF concept car, a wireless network feeds information about traffic lights, emergency vehicles and the location of other vehicles to prevent accidents.
From “Car Tech: Building the zero fatality car”.
Image © Mercedes-Benz/Daimler AG
