[Social Business] ‘Land Rover en Ford: zelfrijdende auto’s die connecten met stoplichten’

Land Rover heeft samen met Ford een manier ontwikkeld waarmee zelfrijdende auto’s kunnen communiceren met stoplichten. Aldus Pulseheadlines.com.

Jaguar Land Rover Limited, the British automotive company, along with Ford Motors and Tata Motors European Technical Centre announced that its newest cars will be able to communicate with traffic light as part as their sophisticated mechanism of self-driving cars.

Ford also announced that in the upcoming vehicles a similar technology will be available, solving one of the most common issues in self-driving systems: The lack of communication with other traffic mechanisms. 

 

Net deze techniek krijgen bestuurders een mededeling over de status van het dichtstbijzijnde stoplicht zo kan de ‘ bestuurder’ vervolgens de snelheid aanpassen om rode lichten te vermijden. Doel is om autonome voertuigen te integreren in stedelijke omgevingen en bijvoorbeeld fileproblemen op te lossen.

The new system: Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory

It is a mechanism of communication to inform drivers about the nearest traffic lights and their current status, which will allow the driver or the self-driving system to adjust speed to reach the estimated needed to reach the traffic light avoiding the red light.  Cars won’t be able to control traffic lights.

The initiative is to provide drivers a better mechanism to save time and drive efficiently, but it is also a project to add value to self-driving systems and urbanity mechanisms to control congestion. The technological advance is valuable for the vehicle industry but also to local authorities, police forces, patrols, and lawmakers.