Smart cars to be put to test in Ann Arbor

[marmar]

Smart cars to be put to test in Ann Arbor

By David Shepardson
Detroit News Washington Bureau


The U.S. Transportation Department today will launch a 3,000-vehicle test of "smart car" technology in Ann Arbor.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland will join automakers to begin the yearlong test, the largest to date.

Vehicle-to-vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce crash fatalities and injuries and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether, Strickland said.

This first-of-its-kind effort will test a Wi-Fi-like technology by which vehicles and highways can "talk" to each other and perhaps reduce crashes and improve traffic congestion. Cars, for example, could alert each other that a driver was about to miss a stop sign or pull onto a busy street. Or that a vehicle has entered a driver's blind spot. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120821/AUTO01/208210324/Smart-cars-put-test-Ann-Arbor?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[HopeHoops]

1. Golf carts do NOT belong on highways.

[Fumesucker]

3. Heh.. Try this in your SUV..

[HopeHoops]

4. Silly little golf carts.

[rock]

2. Smart cars are smarter than Republicans

but is that smart enough?

[WillowTree]

5. I got one as a rental a couple of years ago.

The only way these things aren't death traps is they're not driven on public roads.

But even more than being afraid of being killed, I was terrified that someone I knew might see me driving it.

[Posteritatis]

6. Fear and panic from land-yacht fans incoming! (nt)