Stepping up a Gear
Soon you might not need to visit your doctor. You’ll just slide onto your car seat and let the motor do your diagnosis. In the next five to 10 years, exciting new technological advances are destined for the road: sensors that monitor your health, others that control the car; automobiles that actually talk to one another; smart highways that allow you to ride people’s bumpers in perfect safety; airbags that actually prevent an accident; and windscreens that tell you which way to turn. And if all that sounds complicated, why not just leave it to your AI butler?
Driver Health Monitoring
As well as getting you from A to B, cars could soon act as your personal physician. Many major carmakers are working on intelligent seats and other biosensor-based equipment to monitor the driver’s vital signs. Backrest-embedded electrocardiographic sensors, which do
