The past year was an exciting year for automotive technologies. While 2016 had significant announcements and concepts, 2017 paved the road for future mobility by implementing most of those innovations. Car Makers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and suppliers are now building the next generation of vehicles, and some of them are not waiting around.
Automotive engineers are focusing efforts in 2018 on embedding semi-autonomous features in the form of safety technologies and also safely bringing innovations into streets, carefully looking at how people will embrace them. The future of the automotive industry is moving fast into two paths:
- Fully automated cars are closer than ever. Nowadays some autonomous cars and trucks are being sent out into the wild world, not restrained to the limited circumstances or controlled environments where the first stages of autonomous driving took place; the next giant leap forward will be when vehicles start driving around.
- Reliable electric vehicles are not far from being a reality. eMobility is quickly developed due to ecological reasons: cleaner air for everyone by not using gas. This bet is being a joint effort of countries (entirely banning the sale of gas cars and building charging infrastructures) and car makers (investing and releasing new electric (EV) and plug-in hybrid models and the electrification of many parts of their portfolio).
What 2018 will drive us? Technology is moving forward, and the automotive industry is one of the most dynamic branches of it. This year we will see more robust Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to vehicles in combination with sophisticated Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) for increasing the safety and security both for the driver and passengers, but for other drivers and pedestrians too.
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