The optimistically named 12th Annual World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems has some
glimpses of the future of driving (or, at the least, parking):
cars are communicating with each other, parallel parking themselves and employing automatic, radar-based braking.
I like the automatic parallel parking idea; my parallel parking is decidedly non-Euclidean.
Another technology, which may take a few more years to fully deploy, is vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Using the upcoming 802.11p wireless standard, General Motors equipped two cars with wireless transponders that broadcast various pieces of information such as speed and braking status to nearby cars. When one car brakes in front of another, even one down the road and out of sight, a small icon on the dashboard of the trailing vehicle indicates a stopped automobile up ahead.
In New York City, they are going to implement communication technology that automatically transmits profanity from car-to-car. When one car cuts another off, a dashboard light in the shape of an extended middle finger illuminates.
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