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Automakers Working on Car-to-Car Ad-Hoc Networks
LouCifer writes "The Register is reporting that BMW, Audi, Daimler Chrysler, Volkswagen, Renault and Fiat are working with a German government grant to help develop a standard method for car-to-car wireless networking dubbed 'NOW' (Network On Wheels). NOW is based on 802.11 and IPv6 to allow inter-vehicle communication based on ad-hoc networking to share traffic information. With routing capabilities, the hope is the vehicles will be able to warn each other - and the drivers - about bad weather, accidents and road problems. A prototype is expected by mid-2005 with field trials to start late Q1 2006."
"Wait... This can't be right... bad weather... everywhere!?"
can get spam and porn too...
I know what's on your hard dr
Imagine if this technology were built into large parking lots, so you would know upon entering where the nearest parking place was that did not have a likely parker approaching ahead of you...
The CB App. What's your 20?
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A little spoofing and I should be able to convince all the people ahead of me and next to me that there's an accident up ahead and they should take an alternate route.
It's called CB radio
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[[[* C2C: {car2car}]]]
1. Viruses.
2. Malware forcing ads onto speedometer.
3. Hackers reversing the pedal controls.
and of course...
4. Car networks becoming sentient and attempting to destory humanity.
Just a boy doing unproffesional IT work that's way above his head.
I think it would be great to be able to send messages to other drivers. I'd like some precanned ones like 'Get out of the left lane slowpoke', 'Try a turn signal', 'Off My Ass' just to name a few. I realize that this probably isn't what the article is about (of course I didn't read it) but that's what comes to mind when I think of a car to car network.
As x approaches total apathy I couldn't care less.
First, they're going to install communication systems on all cars, then I'm going to lose all my points on my cab-driving license after the car phones home during an accident, then they're going to ask me to save the universe.
...Multipass!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Great. As if cell phones are not a big enough distraction, now we'll have to contend with drivers downloading mp3s, rolling game rooms and drive-by hackings.
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Looking past the uses in TFA, one good though far off possibility is to have cars all travelling to the same route "train up" real close to each other - one lead car makes the decisions, cars can peel in and out as their route dictates etc. For long journeys, rotate the front duty, just as you see olympic cycle teams do. The long chain of cars uses less fuel than the same number of independant cars, and behaves only slightly more complex than one car.
Obviously this is in the self drive car realm of probabilities, but hey, we might as well try.
Oh yeah, "imagine an ad hoc network of these" jokes coming soon
Finally we'll be able to mod other drivers properly:
-1, Crashbait
-1, Tailgater
-1, Ugly kid in rear-facing seat on long trip
+1, Thanks for actually using that turn signal thingy
+1, Hey hottie, can I get your phone number?
Bob: I've got an idea... an hour before we leave, I'll just hack in a traffic report of a huge accident so that cars will re-route. It will be clear sailing for us!
Carole: Oh, Bob... You're such a hot stud. I'm so glad I married Geek...
Carol: Carole? Who's Carole? Married? You told me you were single you CREEP!
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
Better Now we can do file sharing with each other while on the road - now RIA, thats what I call a moving target!!
How long until they combine this with the upcoming black box recorders in cars so my car can politely inform the officer that while I'm not speeding right now, I was going 15 over three miles back?
Drat! My car is gonna look really ugly covered in tinfoil.
I've always wondered what would would happen if I were hit with spam at 130kph.
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You mean, throwing paintings, or what?
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