The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars ‘talk’ to each other | Vehicle-to-everything tech could prevent hundreds of thousands of crashes, advocates say
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/the-us-lays-out-a-road-safety-plan-that-will-see-cars-talk-to-each-other-170043265.html
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From the article: The US Department of Transportation has laid out a nationwide road safety plan [PDF] that will lead to cars communicating with each other. The agency is hoping that broadly deploying vehicle-to-everything (V2X) tech will boost its “commitment to pursue a comprehensive approach to reduce the number of roadway fatalities to zero.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 40,990 people died in motor vehicle crashes last year.
V2X enables vehicles to stay in touch with each other as well as pedestrians, cyclists, other road users and roadside infrastructure. It lets them share information such as their position and speed, as well as road conditions. They’d be able to do so in situations with poor visibility, such as around corners and in dense fog, NPR notes.
A US-wide rollout will require an array of mobile, in-vehicle and roadside tech that can communicate efficiently and securely while protecting people’s personal information, the DoT said in its National V2X Deployment Plan. The agency said smaller-scale deployments of V2X across the country have demonstrated safety benefits. Safety advocates claim the tech could prevent hundreds of thousands of crashes and mitigate the impact of collisions that do occur by reducing the speed of impact.
Seeing that health issues are a much larger problem, maybe more financial focus should go into health and nutrition. However, that model does not function very well for the design intentions of our society.
Instead, they are spending money setting up what’s essentially a totalitarian network, slowly but surely, product by product, year by year, decade by decade. Ounce for ounce, data is unarguably the most valuable thing on the planet, by far.
This is how AI takes over. I hope Reddit keeps a record of it because I said it first.
This is horrifying. We need to stop this before we no longer have freedom.
Can’t wait for super detailed user data to be leaked, the cars to be hacked, and drivers to be extorted into paying ransom to unlock. Oh, and car manufacturers will definitely not try to skirt any liability by blaming some tech vendor and forcing everyone into arbitration. Connecting everything more into the grid is totally gonna work out!
With a system like that in place the ‘powers’ that control it won’t have to throw someone out a window of a tall building and say it was an accident – they can literally make it look like an accident and blame it on a software ‘glitch’. So no thank you to that kind of technology I’ll put my life behind the wheel in my own hands!
oh good. so we no longer need car insurance. the US gots it covered.
What if the other car is a huge asshole? Not sure exactly I want my car befriending it.
Seems like a good idea. We honk and put on blinkers and flip the bird, but there’s only so much we can communicate with other cars. If they could all communicate their intentions and trajectories with each other and I just tell my car where to do, I’m happy to take a nap behind the wheel while you all worry about Arnold Schwarzenegger.