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Living Room On Wheels There is a subtle but definite shi going on in the way people use and drive their cars. Aids such as lane departure warning, self parking, adapve cruise control and emergency stop systems are there to make the journey safer. But you’ll also see opons in the brochures under the pseudonym of ‘comfort’ or ‘leisure packs’; Bluetooth phone connecvity, in‐car Wi‐Fi and internet radio. On average it takes five years for a model to go from drawing board to front drive, so by 2020 expect the family hatchback to be not simply a means of transportaon but a place of relaxaon too. It’s recognised that we are spending longer in our cars, so the makers are moving towards the car being as much a living as a driving space. Driverless technology is here already, albeit


just past the embryonic stage. Soon we will see accident prevenon systems as standard including innovave methods to control the car (steering wheels will seem very last year). Also we are likely to find the car thinking for itself, making route choices and driving decisions for you based upon external data, not just from the internet but in the immediate space that surrounds it. All sounds a bit ‘Joe 90’ and didn’t those sci‐fi comics of the 1960s imagine auto hover‐cars by now? Well, the 2015 Tokyo motor show saw concept cars with these features from Nissan and Mercedes, the laer being vigorous innovators in the motoring world. Remember Mercedes were first to bring you such things as brakes on all 4 wheels (yes really!), fuel injecon, tracon control and airbags.


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