More and more companies are coming up with the driverless car and very soon, it would be the norm.
Google has already come out with a driverless car and Audi is also expected to roll out its own autonomous motor this week. According to the Wall Street Journal, the German company is planning to launch a car that can find a parking spot and park without any input from the driver.
At the CES 2013, Toyota unveiled a high-tech autonomous Lexus vehicle a that could pave the way towards self-driving cars in the near future. Although it isn’t fully driverless, the Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle features a set of automated technologies designed to enhance drivers’ skills and reduce global traffic fatalities and injuries.
Toyota showed a modified Lexus LS sedan fitted with advanced safety equipment. It has sensors and systems that observe the road, process traffic situations, and respond to various unexpected developments, such as an obstacle in the road, or a sudden snowstorm that causes everything to slow down.
Toyota calls what it’s doing an “autonomous vehicle.” That doesn’t mean a driverless car, says Mark Templin, the head of U.S. sales for Lexus and the key player in the luxury division’s global operations. Rather, Toyota is talking about “an intelligent, always-attentive co-pilot whose skills contribute to safe driving.”
But I ask, Will you trust a car company to keep you safe, or does that responsibility fall to a driver? Hmmm……
