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When Cars Talk

Posted May 21, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

You've heard of talking heads. Soon you will have to get used to "talking cars." The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications in future generations of cars, leveraging dedicated short-range communications. These vehicle-mounted radios will constantly communicate with the safety and navigation systems of other cars within range, providing speed, directional, and other traffic data (see video). The systems will alert drivers of threatening situations and detect everything from pedestrians to motorcycles and buses.

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05/22/2014 8:35 AM

How about back seat navigation?
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05/22/2014 10:18 AM

I thought that was already handled by the MIL-SPEC unit.

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05/24/2014 8:24 PM

That'll be great if my technology can tell your technology to get out of the way!

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05/26/2014 6:53 PM

All well and good but I'm intending on keeping my 80 series diesel Landcruiser for a very long time. One of the joys of my 80 is the lack of mission critical electronic devices. Yes I have a combined broadcast radio/bluetooth/GPS entertainment system that can (and will) fail but it isn't a show stopper, and is readily replacable/updateable.

The problem with what is being proposed is that it's attempting to cludge a fix on a symptom not attend to the real problem of inattentive/incompetant drivers.

Sadly driver education is very low on the priority list when there's money to be made...

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