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GM Working On Wi-Fi Direct-Equipped Cars To Detect Pedestrians and Cyclists

Posted by samzenpus on from the scanning-the-road dept.

cylonlover writes "General Motors is working to expand upon its vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems that allow information to be shared between vehicles and infrastructure to provide advance warning of potential road hazards, such as stalled vehicles, slippery roads, road works, intersections, stop signs and the like. The automaker is now looking to add pedestrians and cyclists to the mix using Wi-Fi Direct technology so a car can detect them in low visibility conditions before the driver does."

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  1. Why not use heat sensors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think deer are a much bigger problem than cyclists or pedestrians.

  2. Bad idea by leromarinvit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you need your car to detect obstacles for you, you're driving too fast. Because there's no way this is going to work 100% - not every pedestrian is carrying a device with Wi-Fi eneabled - so what do you do when you're relying on it and it fails?

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    1. Re:Bad idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Every citizen will have a Wi-Fi enabled GPS tracker 'installed' in them .... for their own safety!

      If you've got nothing to hide .......

  3. Re:Here's the funny thing about all of this... by colinrichardday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One is that cell phones had no effect on accident rates, because they've remained the same from 1990-2010. It also means that the crusade on drunk driving had no results as far as reported accidents.

    Does the concept of multiple regression mean anything to you? Maybe the cell-phone effect cancelled the decrease-in-drunk-driving effect?