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there's one of those videos I'm gonna regret the minute I do it because there are so many important technologies breaking out in cars in the year ahead that choosing just five as an errand only a fool would do Here I am I'm Brian Cooley with the top five car technologies to watch takeoff in 2015 here's my hunch number five fuel cell cars now these are not gonna be big volume by any stretch but they will be big headlines Toyota just put their Mirai fuel cell car into limited production and Honda is gonna be hyping up the intro of its new one in 2016 consumers are no longer blown away by the idea of a battery electric car interesting owning one seems to have hit a natural and rather low plateau at least until we get a battery breakthrough that replaces the hours with minutes in the meantime hydrogen fuel cell offers a tantalizing look at the future number four integrated connectivity I mean 3G or 4G built into the car it's gonna be a big story in 2015 some car makers will do it kind of a lame way and use it primarily to create a hot spot in the vehicle as GM largely does and it is gonna do in big volume but others will tie it more directly into the car's dashboard services and apps the way-out II and Hyundai are doing it makes a car more like your phone who's not gonna be into that number three dash cams now I could be wrong and this may remain famously our Russian thing but the interest I've heard from you in the past year in dash cams along with the fact that we finally have some big names entering the game along with the fact that our roads only seem to be more and more of a lawless hell every year adds up to more than a hunch number-2 driver assists things like blind spot lane departure and forward collision tech are nothing new but next year we'll see two big trends around them to help save you from your own lousy driving one affordable cars will get these technologies much more commonly because keeping safety tech on just the high-end cars it's kind of a bad message from car makers and we'll see them swing to being mostly active technologies not so much passive warnings that's part of the march toward autonomous cars before I get you to number one safer airbags may be a big innovation next year this Takata airbag recall is a fiasco that is still blossoming as we end 2014 but auto leave of sweden recently won awards for a new kind of airbag inflator that uses hydrogen instead of what is basically a little rocket motor like other airbags do you see problems with humidity and that kind of inflator or what caused many of these Takata airbags to blow so wildly and create a recall they can't even make enough parts to repair our number1 tech to watch next year has to be apps still fairly rare in 2014 but look at Volvo which is going to start installing a suite of them in every car starting with their mid 2015 onward by the end of next year it'll seem like an auto mission to find a new vehicle that doesn't have some built in services like Pandora Yelp or live search for destination also 2015 is the year that many car makers now say they will actually put apple carplay and android auto into production making up for all those blown promises of doing it in 2014 luckily Pioneer and Alpine beat them to it in the aftermarket more top 5 lists to wait the car lover go to see net on cars calm click on top-5