With the stress of the holidays barely in the rearview mirror, the hectic traffic they bring is still fresh in most of our minds. If you’ve ever gone through the nerve-racking experience of backing out in a busy parking lot during the Christmas shopping season, you know why a backup camera is handy.

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Are you in the market for a new car, or are you just interested in the automotive technology currently in development? Even though driverless cars may still be at least a decade away, there are new automated technologies that are making it much safer to drive. Here are a few of the currently leading technologies and how they are going to make travel safer for both drivers and passengers.

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If we look at any point in the timeline of automotive development, people have always been dreaming of what was to come. In the days of having to hand-crank your starter, future concepts involved vehicles that would start by themselves. The sleek, aerospace-inspired automobile “fins” of the 50s were inevitably a prelude to flying cars. But as we still found ourselves grounded to the road with rubber tires many decades later, we began to focus on the realistic technologies within the vehicle, as opposed to the anti-gravity hover-cars of sci-fi.

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The science of vehicular safety has been evolving since the dawn of the automobile. We take seat belts, anti-lock brakes and air bags for granted these days, but each of these technologies was born from the persistent desire to reduce accident fatalities and injuries on the road. If we look at virtually any vehicle today, it is furnished with an abundance of mechanisms aimed to heighten safety – from automatic headlamps to traction control to lane departure systems. These driver-assistance technologies enhance convenience but also save lives.

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