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Trends in the Auto World: Accident Prevention

 

Bar bet: which will any normal person be able to buy first: flying car or car that drives itself? Well, right now you can buy a Ford Focus, that's right, a Ford Focus that can parallel park itself, while the driver just has to hold the brake pedal. So, unless you count doing seventy-five through New Orleans City Park and catching air on the bridges over the bayou, self-driving car is well in the lead.

 
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Rear Cross-Traffic Alert: In Other Words

 

In an effort to clarify and simplify understanding of advanced automotive features, we've undertaken to provide a comprehensive lexicon of the different terms applied to similar or the same technology. This week: Rear Cross-Traffic Alert, a simple system that alerts the driver to an object passing behind his vehicle when he's backing up. This simple system has no fewer than 16 different names from different manufacturers and makes of car. We hope to alleviate confusion and mistaken understanding with our little Lexicon series.

 
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