Car companies are looking at making changes to the technology in cars and how you use them while driving. Vehicles are using this technology to improve the ways of the road. These cars will be able to park themselves, alert a driver, and even communicate with other cars around them as a person is driving to help stop car accidents from happening.

Cars can communicate with other cars by sending small signals to objects that are moving around them and sending them back to the car. This will help both the car and the driver know if an accident could possibly occur. These new upgrades to cars will show up in new models over the next few years.

The new car can also park itself instead of the driver having to park the car and look for a parking spot. The new technology includes bumpers and sensors that can let a driver know when they are too close to another car. Back up cameras allow the driver to look behind them without turning around to park their car in a narrow spot.

Cars can also alert the driver if they are either drunk or sleepy. Researchers are coming up with ways for a car to monitor those types of drivers and help avoid accidents. Advanced technology will help monitor a driver’s heart rate, eye movements, and brain activity to help determine if it is safe for the driver to behind the wheel or not.

“I would like to have a car with all this technology in it,” freshman Tionna Jackson said, “I feel safer with the new technology being out there to keep people from having accidents.”