The biggest changes in the market in a decade: diesel is no longer “clean”, and the tablet is not a luxury | Business

Just ten years ago, passenger cars with higher mileage were a novelty, a diesel engine was considered the cleanest in Europe, and a screen with a navigation system was a luxury. Now, simple electric crossovers no longer have buttons, screens provide a lot of information, basic cars are equipped with such security systems that even drivers of “premium” models have not dreamed of. The last decade was marked by perhaps the biggest changes in the car market. Which ones? And what influenced it?

It wasn’t there 10 years ago, and now we can’t live without it

The automobile has evolved over more than a hundred years from a self-propelled carriage to a fast, efficient, safe and fast personal vehicle. History has seen many innovations, successful and unsuccessful experiments, design, technological, production changes, but they were separated by decades. And the last decade has changed cars beyond recognition.

For example, exactly 10 years ago, in 2014, Google introduced Android Auto, and Apple introduced Car Play apps, without which the driver of a new car cannot imagine his life. Safety features such as lane keeping were only available on premium models. The innovation, which can not only warn about the deviation from the traffic lane, but also automatically turn the steering wheel, return the car to its own lane, was boasted by the Mercedes-Benz W222 series, which still looks luxurious. Today, even the Kia Cee’d, Volkswagen Golf, and other affordable hatchbacks can drive themselves neatly without driver intervention, and larger models like the Kia EV6 automatically change lanes and assess when it’s safe to do so.