Currently, Cadillac says it is working on such a car. A vehicle which will integrate existing in-car technologies like lane departure warning, blind spot alert and adaptive cruise control, but also technologies not so common in vehicles, like the Doppler radar.
"We see things moving toward a point in the future where perhaps vehicles won't crash," said John Capp, director for Global Active Safety for Cadillac . "We work on developing advanced safety technologies for Cadillac that alert drivers to potential dangers around them."
Undoubtedly, having all those technologies available will at one point bring to life the crash-proof car, one which could even stop human error from slamming it into a wall. Unfortunately, the first crash-proof cars will be surrounded by a huge bunch of non-crash-proof cars who won't give a dime on the Doppler radar installed on the Cadillac.
The key in making a car crash-proof is either to make all other cars exactly the same, or only allowing your crash proof car on the roads. Making all the vehicles in a country speak the same language, if you like, will probably not happen during our life time, because it needs a lot of money and, most of all, common standards for hundreds of carmakers.
But, at least, “we're evolving those technologies to develop the capability where vehicles will be able to avoid crashes,” as Capp says.
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