Smart cars use artificial intelligence to assist in controlling your vehicle, and their usefulness has steadily increased. Aside from GPS, other Vehicle Automation systems include Autonomous Cruise Control, blind spot monitoring, and Traffic sign recognition.

In 10 years from now, smart car features like these may become standard. So why not connect every smart car on the road to make driving a lot safer?

At CES 2012, GM’s vice president said, “The vehicle whose DNA was set 100 years ago — four wheels, mechanically driven, internal combustion engine — cannot be the DNA for the 21st century.” Our mobile devices can study our driving tendencies and warn other drivers when our driving may harm others. (Live Science)

For example, if you always go to the right lane to make an exit, other cars around you can be alerted that you’re about to switch lanes. Also, if there is poor visibility, cars in front of you may broadcast information to you that would tell you which lane is best to be in and if there are any hazards up ahead. Each car on the road can serve as a monitor of road conditions, information which can be broadcast to each smart car.

These future systems will have to be perfected because too much information about road conditions can defeat the whole purpose of correlating all smart cars on the road. Perhaps 99% of the information that smart cars pick up will have to be filtered out, alerting you of potential dangers only when necessary. Assuming that all future cars on the road will be smart cars, it’s safe to assume that technology equipped cars will lead us to a day in which cars will drive themselves.