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US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial

Posted by Soulskill on from the trying-to-break-fewer-things dept.

coondoggie writes "The U.S. Department of Transportation said it will run a massive road test of cars, trucks and buses linked together via WiFi equipment in what the agency says will be the largest test of automated crash avoidance technology to date. The test will be conducted by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and feature mostly volunteer participants whose vehicles have been outfitted with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication devices."

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  1. Re:3000 WiFi radios at once ? by Naatach · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..the collisions caused by ~270 devices on the same channell will make that network unuseable.

    With that many collisions, that would make the road pretty much unusable too.

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  2. surely... by zmollusc · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they are using the wrong networking topology? Token ring is the way to go if you don't want collisions .

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