so "automobile magazine" editor-in-chief jean jennings shows us the the new technology to save us from crashes. >>what are the best options to avoid fender benders? >> there is an amazing amount of technology out there that will protect even the car from collisions. your car from collisions. it uses a camera system when you put the car and drive. it has blind spot monitoring. it and see if there's a car on your blind spot on the freeway. and give you a warning. if you put the car in reverse the same cameras look backwards and give you a rear view camera. this bmw 3 series you have a camera that is a bird's eye view. it is looking down on you and your car. the real future is that volvo. it is taking that technology and american did to cruise control which keep your car the same speed. putting it all together all in you to hit a button let the car drive itself. that is the real future. it is not that far away. coming in production in 2014. for more information check out jeanknowscars.com. still to come this midday. tom skilling has your full forecast! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every

gene jennings, president, editor-in-chief of "automobile" magazine and you're a good person to talk to about this, jeanf, one month of november, maybe december affected by hurricane sandy or is there something else going on in car sales? >> i don't think this is a real short term. i think this will go on for a couple of months anyway as long as the economy holds. right now obviously hurricane sandy had some effect, like a quarter or so million cars were taken out but the estimate of cars that were purchased, mostly affected vw by the way. they really had big gains because that is their biggest market. some analysts say 60,000 cars were purchased in the wake of that. ford says 20 to 40. we expect that to keep continuing. i mean a million, quarter of a million cars is a lot but i am looking at the factors that affect car sales in general that will create a perfect convergeance. jenna: let me stop you there on that because i was just seeing one of the write-ups in reuters talking about car sales says the average car right now on the road in america is about 11 years old. that could be an important -- >> n