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We've all had those days: rushing around, trying to get errands done. You finally got the dry cleaning, and now you've got to get to the post office before it close s . So you go, pedal to the metal, thinking about what you need to get at the grocery store for dinner, when it hits you -- or, you hit it. While your mind was some place else, the car in front of you stopped, and you rear-ended it. What could have prevented the accident? The obvious answer is that you could have -- by paying attention. But that answer isn't so simple. Driver error is the most common cause of traffic accidents, and with cell phones, in-car entertainment systems, more traffic and more complicated road systems, it isn't likely to go away. But if drivers aren't going to concentrate on the road, who is? If technology continues on its current course, your car will do the concentrating for you. Automakers are developing complex systems that allow cars to drive themselves. They're also furthering existing technologies such as self-parking and presafe cruise control. You may even be surprised to find out your old clunker already

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sports some driverless technologies. In this article, we'll learn about the technology behind cars that can operate with minimal input from drivers, including how far away these cars are from production and what some of the downsides are.

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12 comments Rasid Kasim SSC College of Engineering is really possible to produce like this in the future? Reply Like March 10 at 9:24am Darren Stensland Chemical Process Engineer at Moses Lake Industries, Inc.

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I can't wait for this to happen. I'd love to have my kids have this technology, so they could take a FROG to soccer practice instead of me picking them up and dropping them off. Also, I bet when these become ubiquitous, the cars will sense each other and connect front-to-back (maybe seamlessly) so they can "draft" and save lots of fuel. Reply Like May 10, 2012 at 3:01pm CathyLee Ryan Admissions Attendant at Washington State Convention & Trade Center You have 15 yrs til Rasberry is ready don't rush it!! LOL Reply Like May 10, 2012 at 4:25pm Ravipati Bharadwaj JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur I invented a machine that can control motor cycle accidents named "OCTOPUS MACHINE". for further details drop mail to ideas.jntucea@gmail.com. Reply Like July 20, 2011 at 9:44am Ted Meskers Top Commenter Berklee College of Music

We won't see driver-less vehicles - ever. Since the technology can be applied to tractor trailers etc., including buses and taxi cabs, the unions will never allow such a device to reach the market place, regardless of the lives that could be saved (about a million a year). When it becomes a choice between union power/politics and people's lives, guess who will win the argument - time's up. We lose. Reply 1 Like April 30, 2011 at 6:50pm Darren Stensland Chemical Process Engineer at Moses Lake Industries, Inc. Spoken like a musician. Reply Like May 10, 2012 at 2:55pm Avaneesh Shukla MGM's College of Engineering & Technology gud knowledge , but not sufficient... Reply Like April 22, 2011 at 4:46am Vi Pi Punjab Technical University (PTU) gud knowledge Reply Like April 3, 2011 at 9:19am Dheeraj Mallampati d Reply Like March 31, 2011 at 7:37am Vivien Yan QUT epic Reply Like May 8, 2011 at 9:11pm Odd Grydeland HINT future...... Reply Like May 10, 2011 at 2:30am FICOSA auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/driverless-car.htm

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Have you seen the unmanned car from CSIC? In FICOSA we are developing the technology for the future unmanned vehicles. Reply Like June 14, 2012 at 7:16am
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