Driverless cars clock up more than 700,000 miles in the states! Driverless vehicles to be trialled in the UK from January 2015! Driverless automobiles will modify the face of motor insurance! Driverless vehicles are the future of motoring!
Safe to say, driverless vehicles truly have caught the imagination.
Sadly, although, the revelation that Google’s first wave of driverless vehicles can’t cope with heavy rain or snow – nor can they detect uncovered manholes or even potholes – signifies the technology is going to be all but useless here in the UK.
So we decided to ask the motorists at MoneySuperMarket what technologies they’d truly like to see in the automobile of the future. Here’s what they had to say…
Dan Bolger, head of publishing, partners and video
“For me this is effortless and I’m amazed it hasn’t occurred just before. I would like to see vehicles hover in the exact same way they did in Star Wars. How tough can it be to get a enormous fan and have it point in certain directions.
“Taking this further, why do we never ever see cars going in among sky-scrapers and floating site visitors lights in the sky? One step at the time…”
Katie Malcolm, designer
“I’d like a program that if an additional driver does one thing stupid, you can push a button and they are forced to pull over at the subsequent solutions for 15 minutes to think about what they’ve completed, a bit like the naughty step for drivers.”
Mark Hooson, senior writer
“An augmented reality heads up display, built into the windscreen glass. As an alternative of getting to listen to a sat nav telling you to take the next exit, picture if the road itself appeared to light up, indicating the path you ought to take.
“Or, as self-driving automobiles are rapidly becoming a reality, how about wise roads that adapt to targeted traffic info fed to them in actual time from vehicles. If there was crash in one particular lane of a motorway headed southbound, the northbound carriageway could pick up the slack, if it were quieter, to keep visitors moving.”
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Kevin Pratt, editor insure and house
“Dual controls, so that either person can drive with out stopping the vehicle. A single set of controls freezes out the other, and the modify-more than between the 2 can only be made whilst in cruise control or stationary.”
Darren Williams, senior UI designer
“One factor that bemuses me to this day is that vehicles nonetheless have a 12 volt socket – a lot more typically recognized as the cigarette lighter. Getting bought countless accessories for different phones and sat navs over the years, for me the vehicle of the future wants to get with the times and replace them with USB ports, or some thing equally as global. “If for some cause a 12V socket is needed in a auto for some far more classic tools like a gas compressor for inflating tyres, then certainly between driver and passenger is not the ideal spot to put it!”
Dan Plant, head of content material and PR
“I would adore a ‘self-maintaining’ automobile. Not becoming really mechanically-minded, I know there are numerous checks I must do on a standard basis, but frankly I forget – and even if I keep in mind I really feel like I am bluffing my way through it.
“Will vehicles ever exist that have oil that tops itself up to the appropriate level, self-cleaning windows so I needn’t carry about loads of screenwash and a dashboard light that alerts me when tyre tread depth is too low – I positive hope so!”
Suzanne Biddle, video producer
“I’d like an intra-auto communicator. You’ve got a big red button with modest buttons above, below and to the left and appropriate. You push the button in the middle to record a message, and you submit the message by clicking 1 of the smaller buttons. This will send the message to the vehicle in front, behind or on the left or right, depending on which button you press. So you could send messages such as: “Back off”, or “Nice car” or “What radio station you singing along to?”
Steven Allen, video producer
“The killer feature I’d like is taken from the artificially-intelligent, riddle-loving, supersonic monorail referred to as Blaine in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novels. The whole of the inside of the automobile would be made up of screens that can turn fully transparent utilizing clever camera technology.
“Imagine getting in a position to make sections of your car transparent to assist you reverse or park. It could mean the finish of craning your neck around the pillars of your car, or it could simply terrify noisy passengers into silence when hurtling down the motorway (at totally legal speeds, naturally).
“The cool factor is that tech like this has already been invented, although admittedly it’s early days and hasn’t reached the levels I’m speaking about. I hope it does – I might finally be in a position to see out the back window of my Honda Civic.”
Over TO YOU! What would you like to see on the auto of the future? Let us know in the comments section under or on Twitter utilizing the hashtag #futurecar
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