App Could Warn Approaching Vehicles of a Crash

[FR_S_Fan]

Here's an article that talks about an App that could warn approaching vehicles of a crash. I think the App is useful since it will help drivers save time & help those that got into a collision since EMS, Police & Fire can respond upon notification of the accident. Would you want this App? Is it worth paying for the service if service fee's apply?

Just the Facts:
- Wireless collision-avoidance technology is expected to be road-tested soon in Los Angeles.
- An app developed in Italy would transmit warning of a crash to approaching vehicles.
- Toyota is reportedly working on hardware to implement similar car-to-car communication.

LOS ANGELES — Road testing of a collision-avoidance system based on wireless Internet-based communication between automobiles is expected to begin in the near future.

According to the Web site Gizmag.com, Toyota is working to produce hardware to implement a computer application developed at the University of Bologna in Italy that enables vehicles to "talk" to each other and provide instant notification when a crash has occurred.

In computer simulations, the technology has been shown to reduce chain-reaction multicar pileups by 40 percent, the online magazine reported.

Three years ago, the European Commission reserved part of the radio frequency spectrum for smart-vehicle communications systems.

Communication among vehicles would be triggered by a crash sensor detecting an accident in one or more vehicles. The app in the wrecked vehicle would send a coded message to approaching cars within 984 to 3,281 feet of the crash site.

The signal would be relayed to other vehicles further down the line, but the technology would identify one vehicle to pass along the signal to others rather than having every vehicle forward the communication, thus creating exponential consumption of bandwidth.

The magazine article did not specify whether the message would result in an alarm to alert the driver or initiate collision-avoidance measures not requiring driver action.

App Could Warn Approaching Vehicles of a Crash

[Driftr]

Maybe im just a very negative person but all these things are useless in my opinion.
I mean come on app warnings of accidents what do you think traffic usually means common sense people.

and wireless collision. I only see this working effectively for lateral braking .

[TrailDust]

I wouldn't be interested. Call me a knuckle-dragging primate, but I'm fed up with a culture that constantly sells everything for safety. How the hell did we ever survive in the "old days" without all these safety gadgets? Gee, wait a second, we did survive......

[FR_S_Fan]

I wouldn't be interested. Call me a knuckle-dragging primate, but I'm fed up with a culture that constantly sells everything for safety. How the hell did we ever survive in the "old days" without all these safety gadgets. Gee, wait a second, we did survive......

Very true, if anything these gadgets are causing more problems. Since people are being distracted by everything that's going on in their car rather than whats outside.

[TrailDust]

Very true, if anything these gadgets are causing more problems. Since people are being distracted by everything that's going on in their car rather than whats outside.

Totally agree, truer words were never spoken.

[sprinter]

I wouldn't be interested. Call me a knuckle-dragging primate, but I'm fed up with a culture that constantly sells everything for safety. How the hell did we ever survive in the "old days" without all these safety gadgets? Gee, wait a second, we did survive......

very true. too much gadgets in our lives

i gotta admit though. auto flush is genius.