Tomorrow’s vehicles will be equipped with hundreds of mini computers, use sound-dampening foam for a close-to-silent ride, and be as light as possible
If you can remember the days when an iPod connecter was a high-tech feature in new cars, today’s vehicles – with their advanced driver assistance systems and heads-up displays, which beam information in front of the windscreen – might seem positively futuristic. But according to Michael Todd, global head of innovation at Henkel Adhesive Technologies, the car industry is on the cusp of even bigger changes. “The car of the future will be more like a smartphone with wheels than the kind of automobiles we see today,” he says. “It will be digitally operated and autonomous, and it will need to entertain us too.” It will be more sustainable as well, as the transition to electric and hybrid models continues apace.
Here are some of the features your future set of wheels might include:
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Source: Guardian