Hands free: General Motors plans autonomous driving cars

Judy Antell |

Updated: Sep 10, 2014

Look Ma, no hands: General Motors announces autonomous driving and connected mobility coming soon

The Chevrolet Cruze demonstrates vehicle-to-pedestrian crash avoidance technology

The future is here. General Motors says that soon it will have cars that can talk to each other to avoid crashes, and cars with autonomous driving capability.

The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0, an electric car, will be great for city driving; the low speed car was demo-ed at the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan.

At the same event, GM showed how its Chevrolet Cruze could avoid accidents with pedestrians, with new crash avoidance technology.

General Motors is also developing autonomous cars that can drive at highway speeds.

Google is also working on autonomous driving cars.

Just think: soon you will be able to leave the salon with wet nails and drive home without ruining your new manicure, or knocking down a pedestrian who darts into the street!