More and more vehicles are equipped with standard safety features, many of which include helping you drive in bad weather.
7News' First Alert Weather Chief Meteorologist Veronica Johnson hit the floor of the Washington DC Auto Show to check out the latest auto smart technology.
For most cars, you still have to manually engage your wipers, but now with many new vehicles, you don't have to touch a thing.
"It automatically senses the snow when it hits the windshield, and it will come on automatically," said Jim Morrison of Jeep North America regarding just one of the features that can help motorists by engaging automatically.
Not enough clearance in the snow... no problem!
"It can crank a Jeep all the way up to 12 inches of ground clearance. Some customers love that from the perspective of, you know, the snow plow goes by and leaves a huge drift at the end of their driveway. They just crank their air suspension up all the way to off-road and then drive the Grand Cherokee, or the Wagoneer, or Grand Wagoneer right out of their driveway," Morrison said.
You can even monitor the travel conditions on your route with new software downloads.
"We have what's called Sirius Guardian. It's standard on all of our Jeep vehicles and one of the things that it does do is give you a weather map that you can pull up, and you can see the road that you're traveling. And if there's a storm moving through, it will, uh, very clearly show you that you're gonna run into a band of snow which is really some great technology," Morrison said.
Even in dense fog and blinding snow, Morrison says, your headlights will automatically adjust.
Many of the newest vehicles on the road today, on the floor of the DC Auto Show and in productions are being equipped with new weather safety features. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, nearly one-quarter of all crashes that occur are weather related.