Best Car Technology
Meta Description: Car technology has undergone drastic changes, with new models featuring advanced safety, performance, efficiency, and comfort tech components. New models, from different automakers, come with various tech tools.
Advancements in car technology are encroaching the markets at an astonishing rate. Currently, it is not uncommon to see an averagely-priced saloon car having tech features that you could only have found in luxury cars with big-ticket prices. New automotive technology enhances vehicle safety, driving experience, and efficiency. The critical components to look in a vehicle are not always under the hood. Car shoppers are growing more concerned about what the automobile has to offer technologically. Does it have safety enhancement tools or smartphone integration to boost connectivity? Such technology is featured in virtually every brand and model, from sub-contract automobiles to full-sized SUVs.
In September 2019, car lovers were treated to cutting edge automotive technological tools and systems in Las Vegas. Mercedes Benz showed the world why it’s one of the most renowned vehicle manufacturers by launching the Merc F015, the company’s concept car in its “Luxury in Motion” series. This year, car enthusiasts have the chance to witness an array of newly designed vehicles from top brands expected to be showcased. On 8 June 2020, the North American International Show will be taking place in Detroit, and you can bet that the industry’s bigwigs will be ready with better and advanced driving systems. If you’re looking for the top car tech features in 2020, here are the ones to focus on.
Adaptive Cruise Control
One tech feature that you should have under your radar when purchasing a car is Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC). Different automakers design different ACC systems, making this feature vary from one car model to the other. One thing that you will find in most ACCs is a kind of sensor that can monitor the speed of the car ahead to adjust the velocity of your car accordingly. Adaptive cruise control systems typically maintain a steady velocity of the vehicles. Still, in some models, it can increase or reduce the speed, depending on the distance of the car in front. In other automobiles, the ACC can bring the vehicle to a complete halt, and the driver can consequently drive off by pushing the “RESUME” button. Couple that up with lane-keeping assistance, and you have hassle-free driving experience.
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
Let’s face it, any vehicle’s OEM infotainment system, the all-in-one navigation screen that also includes stereo commands and climate control, barely satisfies an individual’s driving needs. A lot of the car manufacturers are now rolling out new vehicle models with a more user-friendly infotainment feature, the Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The tech allows the user to connect their iPhone or Android devices to the system, transforming the UI into something that looks like your phone’s screen. Once connected, you can take advantage of your mobile apps, play your playlist, access contacts, maps, and a voice command tool that lets you communicate with the vehicle.
Navigation
Looking at the emerging in-car navigation systems of modern car models, one can admit that they have made tremendous advancements. The first concept about this technological feature came with the first GPS, introduced in the early 1990s. Not only were they inaccurate, but they were also slow in responding to various commands such as zoom in and out. OEM navigation systems may fall short of the updated smartphone navigation apps, but they at least alleviate the need to ask for directions.
New navigation systems can carry out several functions, such as searching for local points of interest, rerouting in case of an accident, and access to traffic data, among others. Some future navigation systems are projected to come with holographic windshields, smart head-up displays, and Cloud-based data storage.
Automatic Parking
Most modern 2020 car models come with assisted parking features. The technology was first introduced in the early 2000s but gained considerable ground with the launch of the Lexus LS460 in 2006. The luxurious sedan’s auto parking system comprised sonar sensors and rearview cameras that work simultaneously to make the car parallel park virtually by itself. Ever since Lexus made practical use of this tech feature, other automakers designed their cars with assisted parking tech. They include Audi, Jeep, Ford, and BMW. In 2017, the Telsa Model S and Model X took automatic parking to another level. Owners could remotely park the vehicle using their key fob. Perhaps in the future, you’ll pull up to a bank and watch the car drive itself autonomously in search of parking space. Once you’re done, you signal it to zip back and take you home.
Rear Cross-Traffic Alert
Car crashes in parking lots are rare. These are areas that people drive at low speeds but may end up getting involved in pricey crashes. Rearview cameras help when backing out of a parking lot, but have limited safety features. That’s where a rear cross-traffic alert comes in. This system features rear sensors that offer alerts whenever a car, trolley, or passersby get in your blind spot without you knowing. The warning may be a loud beep, but some models can automatically brake to prevent a collision.
Fast-Charging Electric Cars
Electric cars have become popular in recent years because of their eco-friendliness and cost-effectiveness. In the past, an electric car could take time to charge the battery. The need for fast charging compelled manufacturers to come up with DC charging, significantly decreased the charging time than AC charging systems. For instance, a 240V level 2AC charging system takes about three hours to charge the battery, but a DC charging system can charge 80% of the battery within half an hour.
Direct Current (DC) charging is still new to the market. The charging stations are in few numbers and relatively expensive than their AC counterparts. Furthermore, different manufacturers use three different competing standards: Tesla model’s Supercharger, CHAdeMO, and CCS. For every standard, there is a specific station. Therefore, not all-electric cars can be charged at any random station.
Lane Keeping Assist
Drivers get distracted due to various reasons, causing them to steer off their lane. A child may always be asking for your attention. Sometimes, you may take your eyes off the road because of an incident that has occurred. A lane departure system consists of side cameras or sensors that quickly detect when your vehicle veers over a marked line/ road zip. It is connected to an audio system that beeps once you get out of your lane. Advanced lane-keeping assist is designed to minimize collisions in two-lane motorways by helping nudge the car back to the right path.
360° Camera View
According to statistics, insurance claims involving low-speed crashes have been on the rise. You can avoid denting your finances by purchasing a vehicle that has a 360-degree camera view. That comes in handy, especially when you are driving a larger SUV. With this automotive technology, you get a virtual bird’s eye view of your vehicle to indicate the limits of the car. The screen can also display the sides of the garage, your position in a parking lot, and parking assistance in parallel form.
Vehicle technological systems have been becoming more and more advanced. They help in improving safety, fuel efficiency, and driving experience, and many more. With most people focusing on buying technologically-updated cars, you can easily find a reasonably priced model featuring excellent tech components.
Hey, my name is Dan. I used to work at the biggest dealership in the country and now I teach fine folks like you how not to get F•••ed when buying their car. Kind of a cool Gigha. Thank you. Think if someone has to do it.
Now, in this video, I want to talk to you about car technologies of two thousand eighteen and how calming your factors are working very, very hard. They’re working so hard to bring us the best technologies. They’re working so hard day and night. They hired the best engineers to bring us the best things they can bring us. We’re going to start from the bottom. We’re going to start with car seats and especially heated car seats. Can anybody take a wild guess when heated car seats were invented? Nineteen fifty one by Robert Bollard. And he actually invented not only heated seats, but cooled seats also. Thank you. He is the real MVP. Here’s the thing. He worked at GM. He went to manager. He went to higher management. He went to the CEO, to the president of the company. And he offered, hey, guys, for 50 bucks we can have we can have heated seats. We can have heated seats. We can have cool seats. Can you imagine how great that would be? You know what GM said? Maybe in the future.
Somewhere.
Far ahead in the future, we might have heated seats by 2018. We still do not have heated seats and cool seats as a standard feature on every car. Do you know why? Because companies are charging a thousand dollars 15 or seventeen hundred dollars for this option when in reality it costs no more than $50 for them to put it in. Kind of cool, huh? Right now, let’s talk about CVT transmissions, continuous variable transmission.
Guess when CVT transmissions were invented? If you guessed 1879 and you guessed they were invented for cutting trees at the sawmill. You are correct because that’s what they invented for. Unfortunately, car manufacturers putting CVT transmissions.
Is it really bad, it’s just a really bad decision. I mean, they’re really slow to shift, really bad.
Everything about them is really bad. The only upside and the only reason they put them into cars is because they provide five to seven miles a gallon. Better economy, just better fuel economy. That’s it. Car manufacturers are too lazy to create better engines. They’re too lazy to create new transmissions pulling an old transmission that’s hundred twenty years old and putting it into your car. That’s not new. That’s not new. That’s that’s old. That’s seeking old thing and putting into something new. How is that a new thing? So I just hate TV. I’m sorry. I just hate CBT transmissions. Let’s move on. E s C, electronic stability control. If a deer jumps in front of you or a cat or a person on a bicycle falls or a car in front of you breaks, or you have to outmaneuver a car accident in front of you and you break all of a sudden instead of you ending up in a ditch, you will be alive. EOC saves as much as 40 percent of lifes that otherwise would be lost. You see, electronic stability control was invented in nineteen ninety five. Do you know when it was implemented into mass market? Do you know when most cars started to use it? 2012, for 17 years, manufacturers could have been saving lives, 40 percent, 40 percent of people that died could have been saved, not for not three percent, 40 percent. Almost half the people could have been saved.
You know what, they they have been doing nothing. They were just collecting money from the new cars that they were selling. Manufacturers don’t really have your best interests in their mind. They don’t really care about your safety. Unfortunately, that’s the bottom line. Here’s another cool car innovation. Windows that block sound, acoustic windows. It’s a really easy system. You have a glass. Then you have a special film that blocks the sound that’s coming in and you have another piece of glass is just a sandwich you put in your car and you enjoy your beautiful soundproof life. You can still hear the sirens, people screaming and flipping you off because you’re driving like S•••. But the road noise, the freeway noise will be significantly reduced. The reason we don’t have this in every single car is because car manufacturers are simply keeping it for themselves so they can charge you more because this is only available on cars. After 60, 70, 80, 100 thousand dollar cars, are you going to be buying a eighty thousand dollar car in your time future? Well, I’m not planning on it, but if you are, definitely get this option for one low payment of two thousand dollars. It’s all yours. Here is something else. What you see on the left side here is a car that has been taken apart completely straight to the metal. On the right side, you see a card that has special acoustic insulation. Manufacturers can put this special acoustic installation to reduce the sound that’s coming through the car from the engine and from the road.
You can cut the road noise significantly with this. And it doesn’t cost a lot for manufacturers to put this in. It’s it’s not gold. It’s not that special, is it? Is just sound proofing. That’s it. Nothing magical about it. It’s not dangerous. There’s no reason why car manufacturers can’t put this on every single car. What you see here is a Toyota Land Cruiser. The highest the most expensive Toyota there is. This is their most expensive car. And it doesn’t even have acoustic installation. You have to do it yourself. The sad fact is that in 2018, this is not a standard feature on every single car. It’s an option. It’s something you can pay extra for. Take a wild guess when Bluetooth was available on cars. Nineteen ninety eight with Saab 9 3. Guess when Bluetooth was a standard feature? Here’s an article that I found over 90 percent of cars feature Bluetooth tech by 2016, study says. That means that means that even that 2016, not all cars had Bluetooth in them. You know how cheap it is to put Bluetooth. Five, six, seven, eight dollars. It’s super cheap. There’s no reason why Bluetooth should not be a standard feature from nineteen ninety eight. All right. Now let’s watch top 10 Automotive Technologies for 2018 by KBB, you will be blown away.
Technologies of 2018 highlight helpful automotive technologies that car shoppers should closely consider when buying a new car. Here’s a quick look at this year’s list. The latest breed of connected mobile apps let drivers use their smartphone to, among other things, lock and unlock their vehicle remotely, start the engine, send directions to the navigation system.
By the way, this is not free. This cost sometimes 60, 40, 50 dollars a month. This is not free. It is not cheap schedule service appointments. I can schedule a service appointment on my car. That’s kind of neat. Quick question. Can they schedule a service appointment to my mechanic or can I only ask to schedule a service appointment to their mechanic? That charge 60, 70, 100 dollars an hour. Can I do an oil change my own Jiffy Lube for thirty five dollars?
Or do I have to go to a dealership and pay seventy five and in electric cars, monitor and manage the batteries charge held up.
So on electric cars, I can monitor and manage batteries charge this ward manage implies that I can do something about it. So here are some things I can do about it. Turn off the AC, turn off the radio, turn off the headlights. You know what? Just turn off the whole goddamn car. You can’t do anything with this electric car, you can’t charge it on the whim like this. You can’t do that. It’s not a gas powered car because it takes hours and hours and hours to cheer to charge these cars when they say manage. You can actually put in just turn off the options a C in California. You don’t need that headlights at night. You don’t need that.
With this technology, parents can customize vehicle settings to reduce distractions, lockout features and send automatic locational alerts, be a text or email distractions and lockout features.
What kind of distractions are there in cars? Literally a F•••ing jumping monkey, a clown performing tricks, Shelvey? What kind of distractions are there in your car? What kind of features can you lock out? Bluetooth is not the only feature you can lock out, features, features, multiple. There’s a lot of features you can look out. Really? Like what? Texting, calling, map movies, watching YouTube. What features can you lock out that I cannot use on my F•••ing phone?
Some even allow parents to analyze their child’s driving behavior after the fact. Consider this the ultimate tattletale.
There is. I don’t have kids.
And I hope I never will, but if there was a younger me at fifteen, 14, 16 years old, I would rather have him know how to drive, didn’t babysit his A••• and constantly be worried about him. I rather had him know how to use a car, how to use a chainsaw, how to use a stove, how to use a gun, how to use of anything, anything. I want him to be professional at it, not constantly be babysitting him. Oh my god. You’re going 20 miles over. You’re accelerating too fast. I rather spent two thousand dollars with him on the open course and a professional driver or a week or a couple of weekends. So he knows how to if I can drive in snow, how to drive in the rain, how to take over a truck, how to merge, how to properly switch lanes on the freeway, how to deal in traffic situations if there’s an accident in front of him, how what to do.
Using radar or cameras, adaptive cruise control allows a vehicle to automatically adjusted speed to match the traffic ahead.
Are you freaking serious adaptive cruise control? Are they are they actually for real?
It.
It was available in nineteen ninety nine. How is this new? This S••• is not new. It was available 19 years ago. Reducing driver workload and improving safety.
L.e.d. headlights are smaller, more efficient, and illuminate the road far more effectively than old school halogen headlamps.
I’m not sure if he’s uneducated or he’s lying to us. That is not that L.E.D. headlight. I know it looks like it. It’s not a L.E.D. headlight. That’s a L.E.D.. A light bulb. L.E.D. light bulbs cost thirty dollars and they were available eight years ago. Probably more than that, but available eight years ago for sure. Well, here’s a real question. Do you know when L.E.D. were invented in 1962, 1962? That’s about 60 years ago. Why do we have L.E.D. everywhere on our cars since 1960s? Oh, because car manufacturers and light bulbs. Companies like to charge 50 and 60 dollars for light bulbs and L.E.D. won’t be burning out all the time. That’s that’s the real reason. So this thing is not F•••ing new at all. I can go to eBay and buy a buy one for $30.
Not only do they more closely mimic natural sunlight, but they last the life of the vehicle.
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto allow drivers to access to contacts, music, texting and navigation abilities of their smartphones through a smartphone like interface conveniently displayed on the vehicle’s touchscreen apps.
Are you F•••ing kidding me? An app? Another F•••ing app. This is the second app that he already is talking about. Apps are not new. We had apps since 2007 with invention of an iPhone and before that we had apps on PDA. Yeah, there are also apps. Apps are not F•••ing you apps on the car. This is not even the app on the car. It just transit is just a mirror from what you have on your phone. It’s not even the original F•••ing app is just a copy of what you have on your phone. Here’s a better question. Can I use any of that S••• while I’m driving? Oh no, I can’t. I can’t text while I’m driving. Can’t call while I’m driving unless I have Bluetooth. Hold on. So what’s the point of that app if I have Bluetooth? So you’re telling me this is nothing new again? OK, let’s move on.
U.s. v. Ports, is he on drugs?
I mean, I understand this is California and S••• is legal, but how high are you while making this S•••? You know what? Maybe these are magical U.S. bees. Maybe these maybe these are used bees from the future.
A single U.S. port is all that’s needed to connect a smartphone to your car. But with multiple u_s_b_ ports in all roads, your passengers can keep their electronic devices charged, too.
I can’t. They moved you is be ports from. From the front to the back. Are you F•••ing serious? How’s this new? We had u_s_b_ ports since two thousand. 3 2004 as a mainstream, I’m not talking about when they were invented, even they were invented before that. I’m talking about like Maine. Everybody have what you can go to F•••ing Walmart and buy one. This is not new. How is this how is used beatport new? They moved it from the front of the car to the back of the car. How is this new?
For rear visibility can make it tricky to back out in a parking lot. To that end, rear cross traffic alert reduces the likelihood of an accident by detecting and warning the driver. When cars or pedestrians are approaching from blindspots, is that a backup camera?
Is that a F•••ing backup camera with a 360 degree camera in 2018 that she was available on that Q Forty five in two thousand two and Neeson offered 360 degree cameras. How is this new? This S••• is 16 years old, 16 years old. This is not new at all.
With lane departure warning, an audible chime or vibration through the steering wheel or CPD alerts the driver that their vehicle has drifted from its lane, more advanced versions of this technology will even help steer the vehicle back into its lane.
Is he serious? I. That was available on the Mitsubishi in nineteen ninety two. This is not new again, this ship was available on the F•••ing Mitsubishi. I don’t even consider Mitsubishi has a car manufacturers. Half of their S••• is F•••ing dildos, toasters and t.v.’s. This is not new. A company that manufacturer t._v.s and Cars. Had this on their cars. How is this new? I don’t understand.
When equipped with automatic emergency braking, a vehicle can detect a stationary or slow moving vehicle ahead and if needed, automatically apply the brakes to avoid or lessen the severity of a collision.
More serious had this in their two thousand cars.
It was called distraught, Nick. It was some kind of stupid A••• name, but they had it in year two thousand. This right here is 18 years old. More that, more over that. We’re not done just yet. Guess what? The technology they’re using. The Raider based. It’s just a Raider based technology. It sends it sends a signal and it bounces back to the car. It was available in nineteen ninety five. It took Mercedes five F•••ing lazy years to put them in their cars and they actually had it in cars. Now, we’re praising this in 2018 as if it’s new. It’s not new, it was available in nineteen ninety five and it was implemented in cars in two thousand.
You know what, maybe I’m just angry at this guy for making a S•••ty video. Maybe his job is to make S••• videos. You know, he is pay his bills, taking care of the family and he’s working for the stupid US KBB company and he’s making ship videos, he’s doing what he’s supposed to do, I’m just angry at him. You know what?
Through.
Which he’s double dipping. I am not going hard enough on this guy. He is double dipping. He just talked about 360 degree cameras. He just. You know what? Maybe it’s a magical 360 degree camera. Maybe it will let you see souls of your enemies when you’re driving past them. Or maybe it can detect the dumb A•••es. They’ll be great if it can detect stupid people that. Great.
360 degree camera systems stitched together an overhead helicopter view for the driver when parking, delivering enhanced situational awareness that a simple low mounted backup camera simply can’t match. And that is a very brief look at Kelley Blue Books 10-best Automotive Technologies of twenty eighteen.
I’m done. I can’t. I can’t even. Hey, if you enjoyed this video, give me a thumbs up. Below and click the subscribe button over my head or watch one of those two videos if you want to see more money saving tips about cars. This is Dan with 60 minute car. I’m signing out and I’ll see you on the Internet.
