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Many automakers have released advanced smart cruise control features in recent years that allow a car to brake, steer and accelerate to maintain its lane and keep up or slow down with traffic on the highway. Honda is about to reveal its next step toward a fully autonomous car with the introduction new automated driving technologies at the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, which runs from September 7-11. Building on current adaptive cruise control and lane departure prevention systems, Honda will be demonstrating its new Automated Highway Driving system on an eight-mile highway loop in Detroit, MI. The key elements of this technology suite are the abilities to perform more in-depth autonomous driving maneuvers such as lane changes, freeway entry/exit and even avoiding obstacles in the road. The Lane-level Hazard information plus Automated Lane Change uses vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication to alert the driver of impending obstructions in the road, and it c...