[heurist]

I've been enjoying Chevrolet's "adaptive cruise control" and "lane-keep assist". They both have a lot of room for improvement but are a good step into progressive enhancement, as you put it. I've been imagining different tools that we might start seeing in cars as this kind of product develops: adaptive high beams, rear view and side mirrors that auto-adjust to your gaze, automatic windshield wipers connected to a weather API and an internal camera system that measures visual noise from the windshield, a radar view in the dash so you know where the surrounding cars are... lots of little opportunities. Make the human driver redundant piece by piece.

[briandear]

Adaptive high beams are on Audi now, they are awesome. Weather API connected wipers? Bad idea, rain sensing already works, why use an API when you never turn on wipers before it rains anyway? Radar view for surrounding cars might be a nice gimmick but other than blind spot detection or parking assist, I’m not sure what benefit a radar display would have, unless it’s for parking, and an equivalent exists (Audi for example has 360 degree parking cameras and some cars have full autonomous parking already.)

But the fly-by-wire concept could be a good one — if reliability is ultra high.

[dsfyu404ed]

>Adaptive high beams are on Audi now, they are awesome.

I can't wait for BMW to have adaptive blinkers based on predicted driver behavior.

>Weather API connected wipers? Bad idea

Especially because the radar map will often see rain that's not making it to the ground

[heurist]

Radar view (or some kind of value-add sensing view) gets consumers to start trusting autonomous systems. And I trust your judgement on the weather API - more generally, windshield wipers should be able to operate themselves :)