What drivers want when they buy a car has changed greatly in just two years. The most wanted features have gone from spiffy headlights to connected car infotainment/entertainment features found on smartphones.
JD Power first asks about features without mentioning the price, then finds out what people want after the price is mentioned.
There are several companies that want to rule the road without drivers, providing the cars, technology and wherewithal for cars to drive without people. Currently
The Nissan Smart Rearview Mirror is smarter than your average mirror. It uses a special camera to make the view of what is behind the Nissan, clearer, better and safer.
In fact, the Nissan Smart Rearview Mirror won the 2014 Traffic Safety Achievement Award.
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Winners of the Automotive News PACE awards include many ADAS and connected car features. The most interesting are new systems that prevent backing up collisions and others that prevent injuries to pedestrians.
Texas Instruments recently announced AEC-Q100-qualified gate drivers and SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy CC2541-Q1.
SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy CC2541-Q1, a highly-integrated wireless microcontroller (MCU) that delivers low power, low cost, and simplified automotive connectivity to emerging smartphone-controlled and wire-replacement applications.
At CES Audi announced that it has developed its own, much smaller LIDAR that is mounted on the Audi grille, eliminating the ugly “can” at the top look. The company showed just how intelligent and beautiful self-driving cars can be.
In a demonstration Audi used an app to “call” the car from a parking spot to the front of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Las Vegas.
Telenav reported that it has expanded its supplier agreement with Ford until 2017 and updated its Scout for iPhone app.
Most GPS navigation apps like Google Maps and Apple Maps don’t let you search while you’re already navigating. Telenav’s update of its Scout for iPhone app helps people find restaurants, coffee shops, or gas stations that are right along their route – and lets them easily add these as pit stops with the fewest taps on the iPhone.
Many of us have seen the problems that arise when someone drives the wrong direction in the lane. Often it is someone who goes down a one way street, the wrong way. Or it could be on a curved highway. In the case of Germany, there are 1,800 wrong-way drivers reported on the autobahn network, annually. This kind of mistake leads to serious accident with one in six deaths in these kinds of collisions.
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) found that people surveyed feel positive about connected vehicles, have optimistic expectations of the benefits, have some concerns, and generally desire connected-vehicle technology when it becomes available.
This newly published paper titled “A Survey of Public Opinion About Connected Vehicles in the U.S., The U.K., And Australia” is full with interesting facts and figures such as:
Nissan in Europe is testing new paint technology that repels mud, rain and everyday dirt called a self-cleaning car. It could mean that drivers will say chuck-it to their buckets and sponges.
A European Nissan Note with super-hydrophobic and oleophobic paint effectiveness is being by engineers at Nissan Technical Centre Europe in many conditions.
A study from the Eno Center for Transportation reports the many benefits of autonomous, self-driven, robotic driverless cars.