Frickin’ Finally!

Finally!  Cars are going to become more efficient and safer than ever before thanks to a new European technology.  The most dangerous part of a car, and the part that causes 99.999% of all accidents is the human behind the wheel.  Humans are imperfect creatures that are distracted, emotional, and stupid.  These shared traits should keep us from driving cars in the first place, but it doesnt.  The new car train idea would give your car the ability to link up to a professionally driven “car train” which is a series of cars all traveling in a caravan controlled by a computer system that links all cars to the first in the line.  The first car in the line would be driven by a professional driver who would keep everyone safely and efficiently moving.  Anytime you wanted to enter or leave a car train, your cars computer would handle the merging in and out, and you would gain control of your car again once you left the car train.  By traveling so closely together, cars can gain 20% more fuel efficiency just in reduced air drag.  In a car train, you could also pay attention to the other things in your car while the car itself did the driving.  This would reduce accidents, fuel consumption, traffic jams and road rage.  Yes, it would reduce traffic jams, as impossibly as that seems.  It would work because all it takes is one idiot senior citizen going too slowly in the fast lane to ripple into a traffic jam before long.  This would reduce the number of people operating their cars on the freeway, and therefore reduce the number of idiots driving at the same time.  See more about this on TreeHugger.