the days when your car will autonomously
pick you up drive you to a destination
and drop you off at the door are many
years away but the building blocks the
full autonomy may already be in your own
car in the form of high-tech convenience
and safety features like these adaptive
cruise control watches the car in front
of you and maintains a gap even if that
car slows down or speeds up buttons on
the steering wheel that you choose how
closely you want to follow the best
systems will bring you all the way to a
stop to turn it back on again when the
traffic pulls away you have to either
cap the accelerator or press the resume
button on the steering wheel
lane-departure prevention often called
lane-keeping aid or assist will steer
the car back into your lane using a
camera that looks at the lane markings
ahead of you wear some of these systems
are corrected and jerky others will keep
you centered in the lane without a whole
lot of pinballing left and right are
2016 volvo xc90 has a feature called
pilot assist that combines these
features it does the steering and the
acceleration and braking for you in this
model that works up to only about 30
miles per hour in the next model year
and in a new volvo sedan the company
says it will work all the way up to
highway speeds
most cars that have any kind of lane
departure prevention require you to take
the wheel after a number of seconds
Tesla is an exception already and in
time there will probably be more safety
and regulatory hurdles remain but in
some respects autonomy is already here
yeah
