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Those include adaptive cruise control, distance warning, blind-spot information system, "city safety," driver alert system, lane-keeping aid, road-sign information, anti-skid system and parking assist."There are just too many bells and whistles on the steering column, either to push, pull, scroll, hold down, release, etc.The 2020 Olympics could become a venue for automotive as well as athletic competition, and not just among traditional car companies.

Drivers stop, hop out, push a button on the key fob, and the car takes over. "I'd been driving a 15-year-old Jeep, which only had cruise control that you constantly had to adjust, so all these new features are a novelty.On a recent investor call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had seen some "fairly crazy videos on YouTube" of Tesla owners driving hands-free with autopilot, and added: "This is not good. By the time I remember which one to use, there's already a row of cars behind me honking to park my car," she said.While Goldsmith says he has yet to test all the automated features, he says the China brushless DC inverter paddle wheel aerator manufacturers suite of functions was "definitely" a factor that helped sell he and his wife on the car."We're in well over 8 million cars on the road today and will be in more than 30 million in the next three to four years," says Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's president and CEO."

"Doing crazy things"A big step in that direction was the traffic-jam assistance feature on the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class. In-car cameras and software read and react to road signs, speeding the car up or slowing it down.Silicon Valley's Tesla Motors recently broke new ground by downloading "autopilot" features to its newer models, just as software updates are downloaded to smartphones and tablets."We maintain our expectation that drivers will remain in control of their cars in 2020," Moritaka Yoshida, Toyota's chief safety technology officer, said recently at a demonstration of the company's latest automated driving technology., who heads global automotive consulting for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu."Goldsmith recently traded the Jeep for a 2015 Volvo with a mouthful of a name - the V40 T5 R-design - and a handful of semi-automated driving features. It's all about the app, and how many people use it."