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Written by Paul Horrell
Jaguar Land Rover is helping to adapt a section of roads for extra-connected vehicles. Drivers will get early warnings of dangers beyond their vision. And in turn their cars will automatically pass on the alert.Around 100 smart" connected and near-autonomous vehicles will use the 40-mile section of roads, mixing it with ordinary traffic. Driving between Coventry and Solihull? This means you. Engineers worldwide agree that autonomous cars will work a lot better if they"re able to milk information above and beyond what their internal sensors and mapping can harvest. The connected corridor", as JLR is calling it, is an example.The sort of info we normally see on overhead gantries is an example. Queues or ice warnings would be relayed directly to the connected car, alerting either the driver or the autonomous system. Possible re-routing around a jam would be sent by the same transmissions.V2I, the boffins call it: vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. But we"ve also got V2V here: vehicle-to-vehicle. If you have to jam on the brakes, wouldn"t it be handy if the car following you, still out of sight around a blind bend, was instantly warned?
Date written: 1 Feb 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1955
Jaguar Land Rover is helping to adapt a section of roads for extra-connected vehicles. Drivers will get early warnings of dangers beyond their vision. And in turn their cars will automatically pass on the alert.Around 100 smart" connected and near-autonomous vehicles will use the 40-mile section of roads, mixing it with ordinary traffic. Driving between Coventry and Solihull? This means you. Engineers worldwide agree that autonomous cars will work a lot better if they"re able to milk information above and beyond what their internal sensors and mapping can harvest. The connected corridor", as JLR is calling it, is an example.The sort of info we normally see on overhead gantries is an example. Queues or ice warnings would be relayed directly to the connected car, alerting either the driver or the autonomous system. Possible re-routing around a jam would be sent by the same transmissions.V2I, the boffins call it: vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. But we"ve also got V2V here: vehicle-to-vehicle. If you have to jam on the brakes, wouldn"t it be handy if the car following you, still out of sight around a blind bend, was instantly warned?
Date written: 1 Feb 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1955