Will your car drive itself soon?
If you are like me and half in the bag on some mornings because you don’t get enough sleep and are afraid of falling asleep at the wheel then this new ’self-driving’ idea might just work for you.
A revolutionary roadtrain system that would allow cars to “drive themselves” as part of a convoy of vehicles on the motorway is set to undergo testing next year.
The EU project, known as Safe Road Trains for the Environment (Sartre), has been co-ordinated with the help of a UK company to develop technology that will allow a “lead” vehicle, such as a bus or taxi, to assume “normal” driving practice, which the pursuing vehicles will then follow. Once formed, the roadtrains will allow drivers to relax behind the wheel in a similar fashion to current cruise control systems, with a navigation system and a transmitter/receiver taking over driving duties until the driver is ready to leave the motorway.
The system has been designed to increase safety and reduce the environmental impact of motorway driving by exploiting the slipstream that is generated by a convoy of vehicles moving at speed. This passageway of “clean” air reduces the overall drag placed on the car, cutting the amount of fuel used over the course of a long journey.
eric
Sounds great! Wow, fantastic. With that I can switch to cruise control mode!
March 5th, 2010 at 3:52 pmMike from Florida Cars
Will your car drive itself? I have to answer that! If you’re looking for a car that drives by itself, buy a Toyota!
March 14th, 2010 at 5:19 amVik from DUI lawyers GA
hehehehe Now this would be really cool.
I bet it could be a GPS navigator. 
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:36 pmVic from Move my car
It seems unbelievable. A car driving itself….. It is possible but before that we need proper infrastructure.
May 4th, 2010 at 3:11 ampatrick from anuncia no google
This car is the strangest and most beautiful I have ever seen!
May 4th, 2010 at 11:48 pmMust be super tech, and I really like it! I do not expect this to have a one day to walk in the street, but surely for a collection
Linda from Divorce in Bakersfield
The car looks cool but seems weird if its going to drive itself. All these crazy technologies, in no time we won’t have to do anything anymore!
May 12th, 2010 at 9:00 pmAndreas from PlayZone
I think that cars with the ability to drive themself would improve the security of our traffic system very much. Even alcoholic people could drive anytime they want as they don’t have to drive themself!
May 17th, 2010 at 8:15 pmSharon from Philadelphia Divorce
I wish and hope this will be true one day. I want to get in a car with a push of a button and it takes me where ever I need to be.
May 27th, 2010 at 8:06 pmJoanna from Cheap Car Rental Edinburgh
This is funny! Look at the photograph of the bubble sitting in the driveway! This is just so exciting, my thoughts are running wild. So do we mean that I can rest whilst the car drives itself. What about drink driving laws? Will this mean the end of traffic violations, and the need for licenses. Wow!
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:46 amChristina from How to Approach Attractive Women
This would be really helpful if cars can drive us when we’re tired. Especially people don’t have to drive drunk.
June 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 pmAnna from Houston Personal Trainer
This would be so cool since we have to many drunk drivers now days. So dangerous.
June 4th, 2010 at 4:38 pm