As executive director of the University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies, Bharat Balasubramanian is tasked with envisioning the future of the automobile. Speaking at Birmingham’s 10th annual Southern Automotive Conference today, Balasubramanian presented an amusing “news story” from the year 2037 to show how auto technology may evolve over the next two decades. The story deals with a rare auto accident on Interstate 20 near Tuscaloosa between two vehicles, which both drove themselves to the sheriff’s office to report the accident. Both vehicles provided differing versions of how the accident happened – one in super sports driving mode, the other downloading new song software and possibly distracted. However, both car owners were asleep during the accident and uninjured.