Super Advanced Car Devices

Soon a car that will download your work schedule and trigger your alarm clock. By the time you get behind the wheel, the car would have been analyzing the morning traffic and weather and calculate the best route to get you to work on time. You will not even have to touch the radio - it's been playing the same station you're listening at home. And when you pull away, he would close the garage door and turn off the lights.
Those capabilities are built into the Ford Motor Co. 's connected to the Internet Evos, called a concept car making its debut in North America in this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"In 2014, you'll see nearly every car manufacturer has a choice of vehicles are connected,''said Leo McCloskey, vice president of marketing at Airbiquity Inc., a Seattle company that manages wireless communications for many models of cars connected.
About 40 percent of cars sold in the United States last year was able to connect to a wireless data network, which allows the driver to listen to Internet radio stations or get a traffic report, the next step will be a car that constantly monitors the data online.
Alan Taub, vice president of global research and development for General Motors Corp., said the company's goal is "360-degree awareness situasional''-a car that could" melihat''dan respond to its environment.
Technology is too much, however, may overwhelm drivers, posing new dangers.
"The human mind is an amazing computer, but it's limited,''said Bryan Reimer, associate director of New England University Transportation Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which studies, among others, the impact on driver behavior, vehicle technology.
Even small demands on the brain can affect the way you drive, says Reimer.
For example, studies show behavioral changes when the driver simply repeating the numbers as they read aloud. "You drive a little different,''he said." Your heart rate increases. [You are] oriented to the front, but the lack of situational aware.''
Reimer is concerned about the prospect of grappling with a stream of tweets and Facebook updates on car video screens, while also negotiating the demands of rush hour traffic and possibly cell phone conversations.
"This is the challenge of the automotive industry, as well as regulators, to assess objectively what the tasks that must be safely allowed in the vehicle,''he said." We need to do a better job of engineering before we put all this in front of someone.''
But Jon Bucci, vice president of advanced technology department at Toyota Motor Sales USA, said the cars connected are designed to filter out interference such as with software that blocks certain online services, while the car in motion.Continued ...
source from: boston.com

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