The seats are part of the Cadillac Driver Awareness and Driver Assist packages, a combination of activesafetysystems designed to help drivers avoid crashes.
Count IBM in as one of the many companies looking to skyrocket the cost of our future cars, er, protect our lives by developing must-have activesafetysystems that are sure to become the standard fare in vehicles of the future.
More advanced still are active-safety systems that progressively give warning of potential impacts, try to prevent them, and then try to mitigate their effects.
The Lexus advanced activesafety research vehicle is equipped with an array of sensors and automated control systems to observe, process and respond to the vehicle's surroundings.