Digital Car

I started out by searching digital car on Google with no prior knowledge to what this could mean. According to How Stuff Works, digital cars were represented in TV in such shows as "My Mother the Car" and "Knight Rider". Once the computer age began, cars began sporting features such as a 40gb hard drive in the 2008 Cadillac CTS. What makes a car digital is intelligence, according to the article. The digital cars of today concern themselves with mostly safety and entertainment. As for safety, these new cars can "sense" the traffic that's ahead or behind the car and many other features that the article explores. These cars also feature GPS, which almost seems to have become ubiquitous in new cars over the last couple of years. As for entertainment, automakers are looking into adding wi-fi to cars that can actually keep up with highway speeds. Storing music on your car hard drive and hooking up your Ipod already exists now. Where will this technology take us? I think that it will lead us to the self-driving car. As you can see, this technology already exists and it would seem that it would inevitably be incorporated for consumer models. I think that this would allow the entertainment factor in cars to increase. If the cars are almost exclusively driving themselves, who is to say that you can't watch video or at the very least text and drive. I firmly believe that this is the future of automobiles and I can't wait.