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Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars

Posted by timothy on from the ground-traffic-control dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The system generates warnings to riders and drivers of other vehicles by continuous exchange of positioning data from satellite GPS sources. This is particularly relevant as road users approach intersections, alerting them to other vehicles that are potentially on a collision course, allowing avoidance manoeuvres."

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  1. Link to original article at Honda by MLopat · · Score: 4, Informative

    www.hondanews.eu

  2. Not new. by Falconhell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Glider pilots developed a low cost collision avoidance system called FLARM.

    The small-size, low-cost, low-power device FLARM broadcasts its own position and speed vector (as obtained with an integrated GPS) over a license-free ISM band radio transmission. At the same time it listens to other devices based on the same standard. Intelligent motion prediction algorithms predict short-term conflicts and warn the pilot accordingly by acoustical and visual means. FLARM incorporates a high-precision WAAS 16-channel GPS receiver and an integrated low-power radio transceiver.

    See www.FLARM.com