Last week, Robert Scoble (Scobleizer.com), Mark Hachman (PCMag.com) Xavier Lanier (Notebooks.com & GottaBeMobile.com ) and I squished into a Ford Explorer to get a preview of some new safety technology that Ford and other auto manufacturers are starting to develop. With this new tech, appropriately outfitted cars actually “talk” to each other, many times a second, sending information about speed, proximity, location and other data points, creating what amounts to a 360 bubble of communication around the car.
Cool right? Well, the even cooler thing is that Ford isn’t the only manufacturer working on this technology, pretty much all of the main automobile manufacturers (e.g., Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes, Hyundai, and Kia) are working together to develop this communication and safety technology. Also, Ford is working with the federal government to ensure that standards are met when this technology is rolled out.
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