Driving Without Steering (DWS).

If this story is anything to go by, come 2008 you too can be in Will Smith league, cruising at 60 mph while playing/watching your favourite soccer game using your windshield as a screen.

If all things goes as planned the 2008 edition of Opel Vectra will transport you to your destination with little or no assist from you courtesy of lasers and video camera ; wow, that will be lovely I know you will say.

How about doing 60 mph and getting this message “This car has perform an illegal overtaking and will be immobilized”; next thing you are brought to a screeching standstill, thanks to the highly effective ABS brake, right in front of a Mark truck doing 100 mph. I hope there will be a super-active VTOL system that will hopefully and gracefully deploy in 0.000000000001 nanosecond in place ; else you can only but imagine the outcome of that confidence in machine.

While I am hoping that the repeat of that I, robot scene will be as widespread as the use of “mobile phones in Nigeria” come 2008 and beyond; I can only but keep my fingers crossed.

While i can only but imagine which OS will power the car’s brain, first and foremost I know it’s going to be a Real Time OS (RT) (which eliminate Windows out of the equation), secondly I know viruses must/ will not be a threat since Intel has started work on a chip/computer that will instantly quarantine itself once it detect an anomaly . The only down side to this is that your car may not be available when you may need it most, please for Christ sake, don’t make this your first and only car. Anyway you can always become Will Smith; Just take control of your life.