VW Lead The Way To Accident Free Motoring

Saturday, 9. July 2011

VW are currently leading the race towards accident free driving with a concept car that can operate completely driverless. Based on a Passat the car can be driven hands and feet free using many features already available on current production cars. The car can scan road conditions and make adjustments with the driver simply acting as an observer. Adaptive cruise control uses radars, cameras and lasers already which have been combined with automatic emergency braking functions to keep the car a set distance behind the car in front or identify an emergency obstacle.

At the same time lane assist keeps the car within lane markings while sat nav identifies speed limits and bends, slowing the car down when necessary.

Whilst we may never actually see a driverless car all of this technology will help VW to build in anti accident measures. What do you think? A good move? By Graham Hill