5 Future Tech-Cars to Hit the Roads

Next-generation automobiles packed with technology is about to arrive with digital instrumentation, augmented reality, health and wellness integration and more. In the past 30 years the safety element of our vehicles has seen lots of advancements, but the inside car tech was just flashy without much essence. But technologies are coming back in trail to make truly connected and digitally high-end automobiles.

The recently happed CES at Las Vegas revealed numerous car technologies like internet in your car, implementation of social networking apps and cloud enabled services in to the dashboard. Even though all these technologies seems to be some kind of Bond movie stuffs now, but the high-end car makers are all set to make these science-fictions come alive on roads.

1. Audi Reels Triple-head Displays:

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Audi is putting its efforts to bring up a real time destination navigation system which accepts user’s internet commands and gives information to the passengers through a triple head-up display which can be swiped over to the center of the dashboard. The display can be projected over 30 feet ahead of the vehicle which shows virtual directions to the driver. This kind of technology is named ‘Augmented Reality’-AR, the full functionality of this technology will can’t be seen in near future, but DLP projectors and related augmented reality features are quite possible in near-terms.

Audi has also came up with Traffic Jam Assistant which takes control of your car and activates automatic break in slow traffic and low-speed jam. By 2013 you will be able to see Audi’s infotainment system with high powered quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, so it’s quite clear that Audi’s future cars are going to be real.

2. Ford makes Cars Talk over Cloud:

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Ford is presently working with major automakers to develop a standard vehicle to vehicle communication (V2V) system which will enable cars to have a chat with each other over a local Wi-Fi network by using Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) system which allows to shares information like  transmit position, trajectory, and speed data. This technology will alert the car if any other vehicle is arriving at a very high speed or slams break all of a sudden. This system also tells the driver about the road signs, red lights, and other environmental indications.

In 2011, Ford announced a seat that monitors driver's heart activity to protect the driver's health and prevent accidents from sudden heart attacks. Company is also trying to link this system with smartphone that could send a message to nearby hospitals and alert doctors. This shows that the company is putting lots of efforts to make driving safe.

The ‘Ford Evos’, which is a cloud-connected concept car which features lithium-ion, plug-in "powersplit" hybrid powertrain. The car predicts your route, analyses current weather condition, knows about the emission standards on the way and then adjusts powertrain's electric and gas operation balance as needed.  For now this is a concept, but the technology to make this car real is available therefore we can expect this intelligent car to see around soon.

3. Kia with Dual Displays:

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Kia IVI Concept was revealed in CES 2012, this system has two separate displays- A 10.1-inch pop-up tablet and an 11.6-inch widescreen display built into the dashboard. This concept is connected with your smartphone through NFC and also displays icons like hotels, restaurants and gas-stations ahead on the road. This concept is really amazing, promising and very much safe when you are driving, therefore you will come across this technology soon in high-end cars or may be even in lower cost vehicles.

4. Lamborghini Aventador: Quad-core, 3D GPS and 690 hp

Lamborghini Aventador

Lamborghini Aventador has a whole story of tech and power, the car sports quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3-powered MMI system, includes a 7-inch display with 3D GPS navigation and terrain data and comes with 690 horsepower. With this, Lamborghini continues to make us wonder with their tech. As the technologies are getting cheaper and computing power gets higher we expect to see more entirely digital displays in future.

5. Mercedes-Benz in ‘Augmented Reality’:

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Mercedes’s work on Augmented Reality is worth noticing, it projects information on the windshield and is also biked with the dashboard to give more sophistication. Along with this it also has Microsoft Kinect-like gesture interface which tracks human movements inside the cockpit. The integration of social networking is another major achievement by the company; this system notifies friends around, favorite destinations, and even the show happing in a hall on the windshield in real-time as you drive past. You can then update these details as status updates on your social network.