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after people stop their heads from spinning from all the tech in cars today they often ask me what's coming next that's what I get them a long look and decide if they can handle the truth I think you can I'm Bryan Cooley with my top five future car tech innovations not a bunch of sci-fi but this is tech that is the next revolution and just about to go big I'm gonna rank these roughly in order of eminence number five bio monitoring from the Ford AOS concept we saw recently they can tell if you're having a health crisis to possible new federal regulations that might require passive alcohol detectors in all new cars our vehicles are getting their virtual hands all over us toward the goal of safer driving but you know one day it's going to tell you you're fattening ass is killing its fuel economy and then the next big car tech trend begins be hickey aside number four parcel autonomy that means partial self-driving the road to self-driving cars goes through the valley of semi self-driving cars first today already well equipped Volvo's and infinities can roughly 70% drive themselves under many conditions but Cadillac is going to press the matter soon with something it calls super cruise control automating the accelerator the brakes steering lane maintenance and adaptive cruise control there's not much left for you to do except remain liable if the whole thing chokes number 3 LCD instrument panels let's face it dial gauges in the dash today are about as up-to-date as later hosen in the boardroom Jags and Land Rovers were among the first mainstream cars to go all LCD with their instruments but out of the reach of most of us price-wise but today when I stroll the car shows and I see the Chevy Sparky V or the new Cadillac CTS with gauge las' instruments the race is on to dial out the dials number two is apps now cars with connected apps were exotic literally just twelve months ago now it actually causes doubting murmurs car-show when a new model is introduced without them kia soul Ford Fiestas Prius C they names spell app and not in rarified air this is becoming standard equipment but the number one next big car tech innovation is natural voice command that's right one day voice commanding cars will actually work car makers seem to know their systems are pretty lame compared to smartphones and they're making big strides not just because they love you by the way but also because they want to keep the feds off their back and great voice command will help manage distraction take a look at BMWs iDrive 4.2 using an amazing version of Dragon Drive or Chevy and Honda first with an Apple Siri button on the steering wheel all of this gets real close to just plain talking to your car without that weird stilted grammar you have to look up in the owners manual the more natural the conversation the lower the cognitive distraction I make this one number one because it makes almost everything else in the car better and safer stay on top of high-tech cars and modern driving with the only show that's devoted to strictly that CNET on cars at CNET on cars.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching you