Or, even better, the car also has a comprehensive collision avoidance system detects and defends against a crash, even before you're aware of the impending danger, make sure you manage that intersection.
Toyota, for its part, presents results on different systems to develop, is equipped with a braking system that warns drivers of an upcoming intersection with a stop sign. The driver ignored the stop sign, the system slows down and brings in order to prevent an accident. At ITS, automotive industry figures "to learn what new security technology on the horizon," said Brian R. Lyons, safety and quality communications manager at Toyota Motor Sales.
Some technology is relatively simple in terms of comfort or experience it offers, but wind up with a lot of positive effect. An example is the built-in support for portable devices that connect to the driver, say, an iPod to the car audio system and allows it to operate through the car controls. Clearly, a function like this offering a better listening experience, but the real advantage is that drivers spend less time fumbling with the iPod and more time on the road.
ISuppli, a California-based electronics industry analysis firm, predicts that in 2009 more than half of all car optional iPod support (it was just under a third in 2008) offer. In addition, a third of all 2009 vehicles (only 16% in 2008), USB interfaces provide for the connection with other types of portable devices like MP3 players and flash drives.
Green Advantage Smart cars help drivers become more environmentally friendly drivers.
Hybrid owners who want their fuel consumption still further delay, this may EcoGuide by coach from Ford, an in-car-Tutor that information about how efficient the car is driven offers. The leaves are broadcast on the right LCD monitor driver efficiency. The leaves fall off when driving is inefficient (brakes gradually rather than suddenly slowing, for example), and they grow while driving is the most efficient (maintaining a steady speed).
Likewise, Nissan's Eco Pedal scheduled for a 2011 appearance. It is intended to help the driver to more fuel efficient, no matter what make or model of car they drive. If the eco-pedal system is on, each time when the driver activates the accelerator, a counter push-back control mechanism, where it finds the system to communicate over pressure and helps the driver that he may be more pressure than necessary.
Who's in Control? Perhaps what you are most intriguing new intelligent technologies are those designed to save lives. And the smarter these systems become, the more they will raise the question of who is actually in control of the vehicle, the car or the driver.
In model year 2008, Toyota Lexus division, the first introduction of all automobile manufacturers in the U.S., a driver-monitoring system installed that through a camera on the steering column, followed by the position of the driver's head, to determine whether he has an established , danger before (vehicle or pedestrian) or in a different direction. If the latter is, an audible alarm to warn the driver, and, as the car approaches the obstacle, the system begins to slow down your application.
So far the system only on the LS 600 Hybrid sedan ($ 105,885) and Lexus has not said when or whether the technology will be available on other models.
Some car manufacturers even want to go this kind of system one step further. Support in the event of a technology called Distance Control (available on the 2009 Infiniti FX), a distracted or drowsy drivers who shortly before another vehicle or pedestrian - not slow, however - a warning icon flashes seen on the instrument panel, you will hear a audible alarm and a sense of the accelerator pedal up against the foot. When the throttle is not applied, then support the distance-control will promote the brakes gently to the delay. The Power of Simplicity And then there are the types of systems that are more complicated, yet provide simple warnings that a driver wonders how he ever hit the road without him. Blind Spot Monitoring is one of those. In this radar-based system that recognizes the car when another vehicle is in the driver's side blind spot. Everything that happens is an icon lights up on the side mirrors, as long as the other car in this zone. If the other car left the blind spot, turn off the light. The system is on 2009 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles and in 2009 Chrysler minivans. Building upon a rear cross-traffic system (available on the same models above), which helps drivers safely back out of a parking space, even if it is the traffic approaching from both sides. Useful as all these technologies may be, car experts caution that there is no substitute for a driver with good driving behavior - no matter how smart are now or may in the future.
"The IQ of a car is tuned to the IQ of the driver," says Mike Marshall, director of new technologies in the automotive division of JD Power and Associates. "We should not be confused with artificial intelligence, intelligent functions."
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