September 15, 2015 at 18:58New York authorities teach traffic lights to communicate with cars
For autonomous cars, car information exchange systems with each other and with infrastructure - the future of smart cities that can increase the safety of all road users. The concept is simple: cars interact with each other and with the city wirelessly, allowing drivers and automatic security systems to get more information about the road so as not to get into a traffic jam or accident.
In New York, in 2014 there were 248 traffic fatalities. Killed 132 pedestrians, 20 cyclists, 37 motorcyclists and 59 people in cars. The city administration is confident that mortality can be reduced.
There are currently no laws in the United States that regulate data exchange between cars, but the Department of Transportation hopes to release them by the end of the year. And now the authorities have submitted pilot programs to test new technologies. Traffic lights in New York will be equipped with V2I - vehicle-to-infrastructure data transmission equipment, and ten thousand cars belonging to the city will be equipped with V2V systems.
As part of the Department of Transportation’s same initiative, the third largest city in Florida, Tampa, will receive $ 17 million to try to reduce traffic jams with car-to-car technology and “to protect pedestrians by equipping their smartphones with the same communications technology that vehicles have facilities". Wyoming will track heavy trucks on the Interstate-80 Interstate.
Large automobile companies and the Internet giant Google are working on projects designed to protect car drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. Google is testing unmanned vehicles . Volvo in 2014 introduced a bicycle helmet that sends and receives data from the cloud. Kamaz worksover a system that allows the truck to navigate on any road, and not just clean tracks with fresh markings. In California, unmanned trucks will appear on U.S. highways until 2015 to protect road workers on U.S. highways.
There are currently no laws in the United States that regulate data exchange between cars, but the Department of Transportation hopes to release them by the end of the year. And now the authorities have submitted pilot programs to test new technologies. Traffic lights in New York will be equipped with V2I - vehicle-to-infrastructure data transmission equipment, and ten thousand cars belonging to the city will be equipped with V2V systems.
As part of the Department of Transportation’s same initiative, the third largest city in Florida, Tampa, will receive $ 17 million to try to reduce traffic jams with car-to-car technology and “to protect pedestrians by equipping their smartphones with the same communications technology that vehicles have facilities". Wyoming will track heavy trucks on the Interstate-80 Interstate.
Large automobile companies and the Internet giant Google are working on projects designed to protect car drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. Google is testing unmanned vehicles . Volvo in 2014 introduced a bicycle helmet that sends and receives data from the cloud. Kamaz worksover a system that allows the truck to navigate on any road, and not just clean tracks with fresh markings. In California, unmanned trucks will appear on U.S. highways until 2015 to protect road workers on U.S. highways.