Peer to Peer Networking for Road Traffic

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 17, 2007 @01:14PM from the look-for-gridguide-coming-soon-from-saeder-krupp dept.

alecclews writes "The BBC is reporting on some German research to allow the exchange of information between road vehicles about travel conditions using peer to peer networking (I assume some sort of mesh). Cars or bikes experiencing problems would pass data that would ripple down the chain of vehicles behind them. 'For example, cars could spot oil on the road by combining temperature readings with wheel traction information. A wheel slipping on the road even though the temperature was not low enough for frost or ice would suggest oil or another slippery substance was present. Once a car detected this sort of danger, information about it would be generated and passed down the line of vehicles approaching the patch of oil.'"

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Re:good and bad by nospam007 · 2007-03-17 15:37 · Score: 0, Troll

>It's not a matter of choice, cars will be able to be tracked at some point, but I think there may be choice for a while...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/vehicle_mo vement_database/
Re:good and bad by nospam007 · 2007-03-17 15:40 · Score: 0, Troll

I could see more bad.
A car in front if me gets the signal there is an oil slick comming up, that guy is gonna change lanes to avoid it completely. I could get the signal just after him, and so on, everyone will want to change lanes. And of course if someone behind me wants to change lanes and drive faster then everyone else, sideswipes, people getting cut off, panic. It just sounds like a bad idea all together.
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Yeah, just a good big accident because of ignorance of the fact with a 10 hour lockup like nowadays is much more fun.