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Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Mercedes Maybach's new 2-megapixel headlights project images onto the road as you drive
newatlas.com: New S-Class Maybachs will soon get an impressive intelligent headlight upgrade. Digital Light puts a million pixels of resolution into each headlight, and works with the car's sensors and computers to display a bunch of driver-assist information right there on the road in front of you.
Car technology is constantly improving and becoming more and more advanced with new gadgets that seem to come from sci-fi movies. Everyone wants these new and best technologies in their cars. The technology is being marketed very well too. However, I am not a fan of all this new gadget stuff and technology. The technology that has been coming out is basically removing people from the road. Cruise control means you don’t have to pay as much attention because you don’t have to interact with the gas pedal and you don’t have to hold the steering wheel. You don’t even have to watch how far the car is in front of you. Although you still are supposed to be aware, you don’t need to be. That is just for cruise control too. Add in Tesla’s cruise control and you don’t even have to drive, the steering wheel will drive for you. I don’t like this. It is removing the need to know how to and actively drive. This technology Mercedes is now putting out there is doing just the same thing. Especially once you factor in that the car also has cruise control and can probably drive itself anyways. The only thing good I saw in this article is that the headlights wont shine into other cars and pedestrians. This I find really important and especially so because car lights are getting much, much brighter. Sometimes I can’t see at all when I am driving at night because so car is shining their lights, just normal lights I might add, into my car and aiming them directly add my eyes as it often feels. I mean I get blinded by these both in front as the car goes the opposite direction and even more so from behind as it shines into all of my mirrors bouncing into my eyes. It’s very dangerous all the way around. So, I like this part of the new technology because it is improving on the car rather than on the driver of the car. The new technology is always argued as being safer because it can do things the driver can’t or might not notice. A good driver doesn’t need this technology, all this tech ends up doing is making the driver not need to be aware, it makes them worse drivers.
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Car technology is constantly improving and becoming more and more advanced with new gadgets that seem to come from sci-fi movies. Everyone wants these new and best technologies in their cars. The technology is being marketed very well too. However, I am not a fan of all this new gadget stuff and technology. The technology that has been coming out is basically removing people from the road. Cruise control means you don’t have to pay as much attention because you don’t have to interact with the gas pedal and you don’t have to hold the steering wheel. You don’t even have to watch how far the car is in front of you. Although you still are supposed to be aware, you don’t need to be. That is just for cruise control too. Add in Tesla’s cruise control and you don’t even have to drive, the steering wheel will drive for you. I don’t like this. It is removing the need to know how to and actively drive. This technology Mercedes is now putting out there is doing just the same thing. Especially once you factor in that the car also has cruise control and can probably drive itself anyways. The only thing good I saw in this article is that the headlights wont shine into other cars and pedestrians. This I find really important and especially so because car lights are getting much, much brighter. Sometimes I can’t see at all when I am driving at night because so car is shining their lights, just normal lights I might add, into my car and aiming them directly add my eyes as it often feels. I mean I get blinded by these both in front as the car goes the opposite direction and even more so from behind as it shines into all of my mirrors bouncing into my eyes. It’s very dangerous all the way around. So, I like this part of the new technology because it is improving on the car rather than on the driver of the car. The new technology is always argued as being safer because it can do things the driver can’t or might not notice. A good driver doesn’t need this technology, all this tech ends up doing is making the driver not need to be aware, it makes them worse drivers.
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