Future Addons to Cars

Addons to Autonomous Cars

          Autonomous Cars are the hot selling topic now. With Tesla's success, autonomous and electric cars are said to be the future. So considering their success, there can be additional features that can be added to these cars. I thought about few features and glad to share.

1. Parking Space Adjuster / Adjuster Plus

     The disadvantage of parallel parking are, difficulty in parking and wastage of parking space due to different sized cars. With the Autopilot, a sub feature of parking adjuster, which on demand shall automatically move and adjust the distance between the front and rear vehicle based.

 

     Consider a situation that a long vehicle was parked between two vehicle and after some time it leaves the parking space. Now if a smaller car is parked in the free space, 20-40% of the parking space is unused and if another such unused space is available in the same line, then the both can be combined to make a parking space for another car, if all the parked cars adjust their distance between the vehicle in front and rear.

 

An Example of wasted Parking space

      If All the cars parked are auto adjustable then the cars can park themselves with the least unused space and support one another in parking and taking off. In electric cars with a solar panel the energy used to adjust the parking space might be negligible.

2. Traffic Light Monitor

The future Autopilots shall respond to the Traffic signals and stop the car on identifying a Stop Light.  This would be tricky feature as it needs to identify the lane and its corresponding Traffic sign. In addition, it needs to recognize the special conditions like, when the traffic lights are not functioning or it is blinking.

3. Mandatory Speed Limit and Pedestrian safety

With the recent terror activities, a new feature is necessary in all cars and trucks. All the vehicles reaching a crowded zone shall sense an infrastructure signal and reduce the speed. Also the autopilot can takeover until crossing the reduced speed zone. This could be an Infrastructure to Vehicle communication that is mandatory in a car









Dated : 12.Aug.2017
Updated : 20.Aug.2017