These days a lot of cars can go fast in a straight line, corner with aplomb and stop on a Euro. But if you want to win the favor of technical fanatics those attributes aren't enough. In fact, it seems like they hardly even count.
Today, many high-tech junkies see cars as simple carrying platforms for sophisticated devices that aid communication, navigation and even mastication. (Okay, the last is a stretch but nav systems that offer restaurant information qualify.) So who tracks these technological marvels? None other than a publication called 'IEEE Spectrum'u, a monthly published by IEEE, which claims to be the world's largest organization of technology and business leaders. Recently 'IEEE Spectrum' issued a list of the top 10 most technically sophisticated cars for 2003, and the list is illuminating.
In compiling the Top 10, the publication surveyed currently available cars and current concept vehicles and then selected vehicles based on the most significant technological changes. What it identified were vehicles that feature techno-cool technologies such as fingerprint access systems; Bluetooth wireless technology; natural gas (which, depending on the circumstances might not be so cool); zero-emissions propulsion systems; voice-activated devices; and night vision. Austin Powers would dig this stuff, baby.
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