toolkit: Brave New World
High-tech changes are coming faster than ever in the auto industry
SenSor overload
It's here: Driving is safer than ever with
collision-avoidance technologies like auto-
braking, forward-collision warning, lane-
departure prevention, blind-spot detection
and adaptive headlights. It all works thanks to
laser, radar and camera sensors.
It's coming: Google gets all the ink for its
experiments with a driverless car. Three U.S.
states have legalized their testing on public
roads and the mini-fleet has racked up half-a-
million accident-free kilometres. Large-scale
testing is set for Sweden in 2017, with 100
vehicles taking to the streets sans pilot. (See
sidebar on local research.)
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S p R I n G 2 0 1 4 Ford Motor Company, (top right) Jeff Swensen/Google Inc.
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