| Have you ever asked yourself what you fear in life? | | | | backing up, side lane-change vision warnings and fog |
| Ask any parent and they will come up with 10 | | | | penetrating systems into cars. |
| answers generally involving their children in a matter | | | | Of course the other issue is cost and when you raise |
| of minutes. But in reality many of these fears are | | | | the cost of the cars fewer people can buy them. |
| simply not so relevant. In a recent online study of | | | | The free-markets and economies of scale will |
| fear we found a few people actually did have real | | | | eventually take care of this; remember as far as |
| fears, which were quite relevant. | | | | deaths, Air Bags are in nearly all cars and at first it |
| One participant in the online study of what Americans | | | | was only a luxury option on expensive cars. |
| feared most might surprise you. It was not Global | | | | In fact, I too am so worried about the tremendous |
| Warming, Bird Flu or International Terrorism. The male | | | | deaths in cars. It is like having a Vietnam War every |
| participant simply stated; I fear driving because | | | | year in the US, yet we do not talk about it like that. |
| 45,000 people or so die every year on the road. | | | | Today some are talking about the Soldier Deaths in |
| Indeed he is quite correct and the deaths on | | | | Iraq and yet we kill over 15 times that many EVERY |
| American Highways are outrageous and the number | | | | YEAR in our cars, imagine if we did something about |
| of people injured is unbelievable. The Death tolls | | | | that, just think all those people die in vain every year, |
| average from 40,000 to 45,000 per year and | | | | and we did not even liberate a country or take out |
| although the death tolls per mile driven have come | | | | an evil dictator, what a pure travesty at home. |
| down a bit on both 4-wheelers and over the road | | | | It would be smart to focus on technology, |
| trucks the total number is slightly up. | | | | net-centric systems for transportation in the future, I |
| One would sure hope that we get some more | | | | truly believe that, the number of lives we save will |
| transfer technologies from things like the DARPA | | | | be significant and could even save the life of a family |
| Grand Challenges and that auto makers can put more | | | | member too. I sincerely hope this article helps propel |
| devices such as Pedestrian Radars, sonar sensors for | | | | thought in 2007. |