Design Ambassador Eleanor Fosberry, MEng IEng MIED, discusses current and future vehicle design developments. I have spent a great deal of time during the last few months driving around the country on IED business, which has given me plenty of time to consider the design development of our vehicles and what the future may bring. To allow me to fulfil the travel requirements of this role, I recently bought my first car. It has a number of features, that I think are great, but they make my driving behaviour lazier - auto setting for headlights, cruise control, automatic windscreen wipers. However, these are nothing compared to what is now available, and what is being developed. Car manufacturers are gradually phasing out the human element of driving - Google is road testing driverless cars and Volvo is claiming that no one will be killed or injured in any new Volvo by 2020. Even now you can buy cars with various features like lane detection, park assist and collision avoidance.
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