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68fastback
08-02-2010, 07:15 PM
FORD RESEARCHERS ADVANCING CRASH AVOIDANCE CAPABILITY WITH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY


Ford researchers are advancing vehicle safety with the development of new crash avoidance systems that use wireless vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications to detect and respond to imminent collisions
Ford’s research into wireless “active safety” applications includes its vehicle-to-infrastructure Smart Intersection project
Ford is conducting cooperative vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure research with industry and government partners to increase road safety and traffic efficiency
Globally harmonized standards are needed to enable global deployment of reliable and cost- effective vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure technology
More... (http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=33063)

Sunds like this is a ways off given standards challenge and meaningfull ramp-up, but Ford Global Technologies has already published patents on this in early May '10, so the ground is getting staked out already.

Joe G
08-02-2010, 07:31 PM
:reading:

Gr8snkbite
08-02-2010, 09:38 PM
somebody else is doing this also...saw the commercial last night....