Talking Cars Means Smarter Cars

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Katia Moskovitch reports on the latest in car safety. It’s not back-up cameras, but rather cars actually being able to converse with each other wirelessly:

“By letting cars ‘talk’ to each other, we can see what happens kilometers ahead – whereas current technology, instead, allows cars to perceive an obstacle only when it is physically in front of them,” he said.The “talking” is done via acceleration sensors built into cars that trigger an alarm message in abnormal conditions such as when a vehicle is involved in a crash.

When a car in an accident experiences a sudden change in acceleration, this change would be captured by the sensor and alert cars and drivers approaching the same spot.