This almost-but-not-quite-driverless car is smarter than your car - Washington Post
A mere month old, it boasts a sound system that can simulate the acoustics of Sweden’s Gothenburg Concert Hall, five cameras (a good thing because the bumper is so low and far from the driver’s line of sight that it may as well be in another state... Also, a brain of sorts to help steer, stop, park and anticipate all the dreadful things that might occur on the road, then seamlessly avoid them. The new generation of semi-autonomous — as in almost-but-not-quite-driverless (yet) — cars, which automakers assure us will soon be tooling about everywhere, represents a smarter mode of transport designed to reduce the biggest problem with driving. The car not only has a snazzy display panel directly in front of the steering wheel, but also something resembling an iDashboard to the right with a dizzying number of tools, control “tiles” and — not to get too technical — stuff that will prove... Eagerly, we await instruction on the car we’ll drive for a week. “It’s a toy,” he says. Have fun with it. ”. He hands us the luggage-leather key fob and pulls off into the morning heat, leaving us alone with the car that is temporarily outsmarting us. Fun, you say. , where traffic slows to a parking lot, the thing is pretty much driving itself. (Pilot assistance works only when you’re driving under 30 mph. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
