Autonomous vehicles get all the headlines, but automakers are gradually adding advanced electronic safety features to human-driven cars as they step toward a world of self-driving vehicles. Many of the new features repurpose cameras and radar that already are in cars for automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection and other safety devices. SEEING SIGNS: Mercedes' new S-Class cars have advanced navigation and global mapping, and cameras that read speed limit signs. Volvo has a similar system that reads speed signs, including those in school zones. LASER GUIDED: Smaller versions of those spinning 360-degree mechanical laser sensors that sit atop self-driving cars are coming to mainstream vehicles.

Source: ABC News March 27, 2018 06:00 UTC