As much as we adore our four-wheeled machines, yet we cannot help accusing it for claiming thousands of lives. However, as humankind progresses many steps are being taken to reduce such gruesome incidents. You will be glad to know that many carmakers are also vigorously undertaking researches to make our cars safer and accident free.



One of the most promising researches taken in this area is the Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication (V2V) technology. To make this system more effective, sophisticated systems like GPS (pinpoints your vehicle’s precise location) and Stability-Control Systems (tracks your car’s speed and direction) which feeds information to onboard computers are already present. Now the only step required to the ability to transfer such information to others cars in your line of vision.



The Federal Communications Commission has cleared the 5.9-gigahertz band for dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) among cars, other cars, and roadside transceivers. Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory has recently fitted two Jettas and two Audi A3s with DSRC units using the V2V system to successfully run them throughout San Francisco.



General Motors’ DSRC-equipped Cadillac CTS and Stability-Control System are more refined than VW’s. These GM cars automatically stops itself to prevent accidents. Engineer Tomiji Sugimoto and his team at Honda R&D are also working on a Haptic Feedback system, a trembling steering wheels and pedals to warn drivers when collision is imminent.





Via: livescience.com