Saturday, January 11, 2014

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SMART-CARS : The New Generation of Cars

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Along with the increasing functionalities of smart-phones, Car manufacturer don't want to be slow in the race of Innovations and Inventions. With the pace of changing technology the Luxury Car manufacturer Mercedes working on its new project to make Smart Cars that can recognize Road Signs , Distance of near by vehicles and Support driver-less driving. The company also aims to provide Better Fuel Efficiency and Performance monitors.  

As the part of the project Mercedes has finally developed a sort of sensors which can easily recognize Road Signs , Distance between vehicles and support driver-less driving. According to the reports "The software developed is not up-to the mark and Hence, can't be used in daily life . There are a number of Bugs and company is working on them."

Mercedes Benz chief Thomas told "The company is entering a new era of Cars where cars are capable to taking their own decisions. They can switch themselves to different power-saving mode according to the environment and need to provide efficiency and be called as SMART CARS".
Mercedes Working on Making Smart cars
Mercedes Working on Making Driver-less Smart Cars

Is your CAR is SMART ?

The question before the Car Manufacturers and Users is 

  • What Smart Car does actually mean ?  
  • Which cars can be categorized under Smart cars ?
 Well their is no exact answer for the Questions. Mercedes Benz chief Thomas added "What a smart-phone user expects from his phone to do is simply the What he can expect from his Smart car as well ". The primary need for a car to be called as smart-car  is , it will be capable of handling calls, monitoring fuel efficiency and performance. 

The company is focusing primarily on the Hardware as if car get delivered to the customer the hardware can't be changed easily. But, the software can be updated over air.  The company is trying to provide Driver-less driving , Object Identification , GPS Moniters and bunch of other smart features in their up coming cars or so-called SMART CARS.