Next Genration World

Along with the development of technology, a variety of everyday appliances will also be enriched with advanced tools. Included for future vehicles that will be enhanced by ‘eye’ to see the condition around.
Dreams are now being knitted by Intel Corp., together with Neusoft, which has just demonstrated a future car application.
Equipped with cameras as eyes, and computer-based multi-core processor as its brain. Future cars will have the ability to identify other vehicles and pedestrians that are too close to be more accurate.
From the written information received detikINET, Saturday (06/21/2008), this car is also claimed to warn drivers or take the wheel for safety measures to prevent accidents.
This type of visual computing would require enormous computational capability, and provide challenges in terms of programming parallel (multiple and simultaneous processor requests).
The car demonstration exploit research Intel’s Ct programming, programming languages C / C + +, developed at Intel’s labs, which allow programs to run seamlessly on the scalability by using 2 to 8 cores, to process the prevention of accidents without requiring any code or compiler enhancements.

Government officials have given a tentative thumbs up to a new technology for cars that would render the concept of driving while drunk a non-starter — literally.
On Friday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, were on hand when researchers publicly demonstrated a car-embeddable sensor system that cleverly locks down the engine if it detects that the driver’s blood alcohol level was above the legal limit.
Through the use of strategically placed sensors in places like the steering wheel and door locks, the North America Driver Alcohol Detection Systems for Safety, created by QinetiQ, a research facility in Waltham, Massachusetts, would analyze a driver’s skin or breath to determine a driver’s level of intoxication.
The system is being promoted as an alternative to alcohol ignition interlock systems that force drivers to blow into a breathalyzer type device before the car can be started. The cumbersome ignition systems are sometimes used by drivers as part of a DUI conviction.
After the demonstration, Strickland and LaHood gave a positive, yet cautious, assessment of the technology:

The technology is “another arrow in our automotive safety quiver,” said LaHood, who emphasized the system was envisioned as optional equipment in future cars and voluntary for auto manufacturers.
David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, also attended the demonstration and estimated the technology could prevent as many as 9,000 fatal alcohol-related crashes a year in the U.S., though he also acknowledged that it was still in its early testing stages and might not be commercially available for 8-10 years. (Associated Press)

And since the system will likely fall under the optional category for automakers, the technology must prove itself to be reliable enough to not mistakenly prevent the more sober folks from starting their cars to have any hope of being adopted by the masses.
The systems would not be employed unless they are “seamless, unobtrusive and unfailingly accurate,” Strickland told the Associated Press.
A test showed that a 20-something year-old woman weighing 120 pounds had a blood alcohol content level of .06, just below the legal limit of .08, after drinking two 1 1/2 ounce glasses of vodka and orange juice about a half hour apart.
Even if the technology is perfected, it’ll still be a tough sell. Freedom and the means to move about freely are cherished American values. So my guess is that there are very few people who would readily embrace the technology because of the off-chance that a slight malfunction would cause them to be late or, at worst, stuck somewhere.
But with an increasingly greater awareness of the dangers of drunk driving, the promise of such a system shows that technological solutions are in place should the tide turn.