Gadgetory

these are the top five technologies I want in a car this is gonna be a weird episode so buckle up yeah I said it years ago I loved cars especially fast once I used to even repair cars in automotive school when I moved to Manhattan I dropped out of car culture I haven't bought a car since 2003 and I haven't owned one since 2011 but the weird thing is more and more tech has found its way into cars and it's got me interested again at number five it's got to be connected somehow getting data from your car has never been easier you can make almost any car smarter with something like the automatic which attaches to your car's obd2 sensor then there are cars that have their own apps that let you start the car or control your door locks that's pretty awesome and number 4 smart home integration when I pull my car into my garage I wished I could trigger my air-conditioning or home theater now this is a thing Ford brought Amazon's assistant to its cars and that lets you control your smart home from your car it also works the other way where you can find out information about your car from a smart speaker BMW is also jumping in on the Amazon bandwagon and number three it's got to be electric or hybrid yep I'm dating myself here back in my day electric cars were ugly and kind of a joke now they're mainstream Tesla showed that electric cars can be gorgeous and fast there's an infrastructure for charging now electric cars have a lot more support with many more major manufacturers offering pure electric vehicles Volvo even said it will only produce electric or hybrid vehicles starting a 2019 and number two car play or Android Auto when it came to in-car entertainment my options were CDs or an ox jack for my music player now you can link up your iPhone or Android phone using car play or Android auto so instead of trying to deal with some car makers janky apps you can use the athlete used to with your phone and a number one self-driving the advances in self-driving technology are insane Tesla's autopilot feature is amazing even though it's not fully autonomous a number of cars can handle parking themselves at this point on top of that there are some great collision avoidance systems that make cars much safer to operate I'm not sure I'll get another car anytime soon but to find out the latest in cars check out the road show calm for more top fives check out five cnet.com am i as actor I'll see you online or maybe in the subway