Familiarity with the vehicle and confidence in ourselves are factors that negatively influence our driving habits.Take the steering wheel with one hand, make turns without properly signaling with the intermittent, crossing the roundabouts by straight track, not guaranteeing the minimum safety distance or exceeding the maximum speed of any path, they are just some of the behaviors that,Consciously or unconsciously, we regularly do when we drive, but with which we could not approve the practical driving exam if we did it right now.
Bad habits that, in addition to putting our own security at risk, can also harm other drivers and other public road users.In fact, those people who must go through the car, after having lost all the points of the card by repeat offenders, are the ones who present the greatest difficulties when approved the second of the exams of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT).And the explanation is none other than the erroneous tics that are adopted after so many years of driving.
Algunas de las malas prácticas más habituales que hacemos al volante: -But not only these "confessable" vices highlight our correct driving, but fatigue and distraction also influence the increase in insecurity and the consequent traffic accidents.Fortunately technology advances, together with the interests of brands to provide their vehicles with the best benefits, to provide greater security to cars and improve it in any adverse situation.Therefore, as far as human responsibility does not reach, today technology reaches.
In 2010, Nissan presented the “Forward Collision Avoidance Assist Concept” to the world, a collision prevention system whose objective was to prevent possible accidents by reach.With this system, which later was universalized, the drivers began to dispense with those accidents where the vehicle impacted with the one ahead on any travel route, for not having respected the minimum distances with the other cars.The risk of unexpected braking and its physical consequences on the driver and passengers was reduced.
In this way, the radars, sensors that calculate the distance between the vehicles and regulate the car speed entered the scene.An acoustic signal is responsible for warning the driver of the need to reduce the rhythm and then lifts the accelerator pedal and slowly brakes to help reduce the speed.How many accidents of this type will have saved millions of drivers worldwide from the implementation of these security systems?Without a doubt, great allies to combat risk factors such as fatigue, distraction and irresponsible driving.
While road safety campaigns try to raise awareness of drivers to reduce the chances of human error, technology continues to develop to prevent the consequences.The automobile industry advances by leaps and bounds in terms of technological development, so it is unpredictable to know what will hold the future in terms of improvements in the correct circulation.
But for now we know that some brands- among them the Japanese Nissan- already integrate into their products NASA's own technology to gradually achieve an autonomous car that learns from human actions and remembers how a driver raffles an obstacle.The intention is that, in the future, all vehicles equipped with the same artificial intelligence system can share the information and, in similar situations in other users, the experience provided by one of the pilots can be used.And if this were not enough, what would you think if the car interact directly with our brain?
Although it sounds for science fiction, it is a system that is now working on the Japanese manufacturer and that consists of the detection and real -time analysis of the brain activity related to driving.To do this, a helmet will be required with sensors that the pilot will wear, through which the car will anticipate the movement planned due to the brain waves that the driver creates, which will improve the reaction times.
And when the cities are connected with our vehicles, there will be no red jumps of the traffic light, or excess speed as a result of the pilot's trust, since people will develop a passive role in mobility and the true driver will be the machine itself.
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