If automated cars ever do become technically feasible — and that’s a long way off, despite the trendy imminence we read about every day — it will certainly mean the end of personal vehicle ownership, at least as far as new cars. Not because the government mandates it. Because — why bother with it? Take […]
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Car with Personality: Are we ready for this?
• April 22, 2018 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Fuel, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Technology
I admit…I have always named my cars and talked to them too. Not because I am a lonely and sad person but because I want to imbue good feelings in my space—talking to my car seems to do that for me. Every car should have a bit of personality that makes it ours. How can […]
How Virtual Should New Cars Be?
Driving a simulated car — as in a game — is becoming more and more like driving an actual car — in reality. At least in terms of the inputs. The car in the game is steered remotely, via a gamepad. You accelerate and brake the car the same way. Soon cars will be accelerated […]
Auto Cop
• April 10, 2018 • 0 Comments • ALPR, Facial Recognition, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, Traffic Tickets
An interesting unasked question has been raised by Ford’s announcement that it is developing a cop-less cop car. That is, an automated and AI cop car that would sneak itself behind the bushes and use license plate scanners, facial recognition and other such revenue-raising technologies to automatically issue paying’ paper. All the time. Everywhere. For […]
Walking While Distracted–Nobody Wins: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #481
April 2, 2018 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, NHTSA, SAFETY, Technology, TEXTING
Have we become a nation of cellphone zombies? Many experts believe that the increase in distracted driving, in particular using a cellphone to text while driving, has been a big factor in the increase of traffic fatalities since 2009. Another factor apparently is distracted walking. Pedestrian deaths account for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities. […]
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