What makes driving so unsafe?

Well, it's us, isn't it? Which is why as technology makes the act of driving more and more intelligent and automated, driving will automatically become safer. How, do you ask?

• GPS equipped, networked cars will deliver real time traffic, weather and accident data.
• Adaptive cruise control systems will adjust to slower cars ahead, check for a lane opening and steer around cars without having to slow down.
• Cars linked in groups will travel highways like coupled freight cars. This will save fuel, reduce accidents, reduce traffic jams and free drivers to relax during commutes.
• Pedestrians can carry a transponder that alerts vehicles to their presence, fixes their location, and ensures that they don’t get hit.
• If a collision is unavoidable, networked cars could automatically reposition before a crash to protect occupants, such as pivoting a car to turn a deadly T-bone accident into a survivable rear-ender.
• Ambulances will digitally broadcast a signal to cars ahead to automatically slow down and pull over. Motorcycles could get increased visibility via a digital assist. People often miss them in their rearview mirrors, but to automated cars they will be quite obvious.
• New satellites will pinpoint cars' positions to the inch. That level of accuracy can help snap to a digitally mapped lane like a slot car on a track when a driver daydreams or falls asleep.
• 20% of crash fatalities and 40% of accidents occur at intersections. Smart intersections will beam visual and audio collision warnings to cars and slow or stop vehicles and prevent running red lights.
• Tomorrow’s networked cars and parking lots will tell each other when and where a spot opens up, saving time and fuel and pollution. Drivers might even let the car park itself and call for it to return at day’s end.