CarBuyersNoteBook

Sometimes I really love car technology.  Sure, it’s given us its share of preposterous car gadgets but one shining day it will give us the car that drives itself.  And that will be a happy day for me.

Until that day comes, however, you’ll be happy to know that they HAVE managed to create the automated navigator in the form of AIDA.

The Affective Intelligent Agent Driving–AIDA–will tell you the best route to your destination by keeping track of traffic reports.  But not only will it tell you how to get where you want to go, it will also tell you when you should get gas, and even suggest places you may want to go that you didn’t know about based on your earlier visits.

Moreover, this joint project of MIT and Volkswagen is slated to include a “display” to communicate with the driver, allowing it to “smile when the driver seems angry”.

A pretty clever idea, though release dates and pricing are still wildly up in the air.  If you were considering buying a GPS, you may want to hold off and keep track of AIDA instead.