Authorities in New York are taught to communicate with the car lights

For autonomous vehicles, systems, information exchange cars with each other and with the infrastructure - the future of smart cities that can improve the safety of all road users. The concept is simple: cars interact with each other and with the city over the air, allowing the driver and an automatic safety system to get more information about the road to avoid the traffic jam or an accident.

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In New York in 2014. произошли 248 road fatalities. Killed 132 pedestrians, 20 cyclists, 37 motorcyclists and 59 people in cars. The city administration is confident that the mortality rate can be reduced.

Currently, the US has no laws regulating the system of communication between cars, but the Ministry of Transport hopes to release them by the end of the year. And now the authorities have presented the pilot program to test new technologies. Traffic lights in New York be equipped with a data V2I - vehicle-to-infrastructure, and ten thousand cars belonging to the city, provide V2V-systems.

As part of the same initiative of the Ministry of Transport the third largest city in the state of Florida - Tampa - receive seventeen million dollars to try to reduce the number of traffic jams by using technology vehicle-vehicle and "for the protection of pedestrians through equipping them with smart phones the same communications technology, which is equipped with transportation facilities". Wyoming will take the tracking of heavy trucks on Interstate Interstate-80.

On projects designed to protect motorists, cyclists and pedestrians are large auto companies and Internet giant Google. Google is testing unmanned vehicles . Volvo in 2014 introduced bicycle helmet , send and receive data from the cloud. Kamaz it is working on a system that allows the truck to navigate on all roads, not just clean the tracks with a fresh layout. In California, until 2015 in the US highways will unmanned trucks that protect road workers on motorways USA.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/262496/