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New Cars That Can Learn
September 5, 2009 |
If you are asked which country you thought were at the forefront of technology advancement and innovation, you would probably think of Japan first.Their presence in the car markets have also been very powerful and Japan is renowned for producing high quality, reliable automobiles. They have now upped their game even further however by creating an integrated car system that uses ‘intelligent technology’, and it has already caught the eye of many off the car industries big hitters.
Microchips have been used in automobiles for a long time now, controlling such things as airbags, ABS and traction control among lots of other things. A couple of years back cars started to made that could self- monitor a great deal more elements than simply fuel levels and engine temperature. They could now report on tire pressures, chassis forces, MIL spec cables and even road surface conditions. The company in Japan known as Copal Electronics have taken the micro chip to the next level however and using new electrical components developed a car that can not only look after itself but can learn. If the car is driven around a corner in the wet at 30mph for example, and the rear wheels slide out, the car will note the road surface condition, speed, tire pressures, corning angle, weight of the car and many other factors and then make very subtle changes to things such as the fan accessories engagement so that the same does not happen again.
Experts have said that as the technology develops and the cars have been learning for a good few years, they will eventually be able to preempt and avoid all sorts of driving problems and accidents.The big car producers will want to run their own tests on the technology before they start incorporating it into their cars, but most experts believe it will go mainstream within 5 years.
