Science is enabling people to make giant technological strides in all fields, including those of automobiles. Although the dawn of mass produced flying cars is still far away, major interest combined with high funding has resulted in many potentially ground breaking technological changes in cars.
Areas where research is primarily focused on includes finding new energy sources and materials; including biogas, hydrogen, nitrogen, electric and solar power as potential energy sources, building smart cars, making cars less accident prone, saving energy, having greater fuel efficiency and producing cleaner cars, which do not pollute the environment.
Techniques such as regenerative braking, the ‘Turbosteamer’ used by BMW and the use of computational fluid dynamics help in a more efficient use of energy.
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Marge Shaw 