http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/ Engadget Comments for Japan to use 700MHz band for inter-vehicle communications system http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Mar 26th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
:sigh: Japan really does exist in the future. ]]>Dec 6th 2007 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 6th 2007 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/







I'm serious.]]>Dec 6th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
Point being, with WiFi, you already have cheap chips available on existing technology. All you have to do is to write some software that takes in the GPS location of the WiFi units near it (i.e. the other cars on the road), match it up to a map, and see not only whether you're traveling too close to the next car, but also if there's congested traffic ahead (think daisy-chaining 100 WiFi-enabled cars in a row). Plus, you put WiFi in a car, and the hackers wwill mod all these things to let you get Internet from unsecured hotspots and other things like that. Can't do that with 700MHz, and what you can do with it you can do at least the same if not better with WiFi, which is here today.]]>Dec 6th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 6th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
that's my point: you don't need anything other than inter-car communication. Communicating with a central traffic server for example is completely redundant, unnecessary, and more expensive.]]>Dec 6th 2007 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 6th 2007 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://craphound.com/est/).]]>Dec 6th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
You can talk to the car infront? Doesn't that sound like a brilliant way to increase road rage incidents where currently people shout at people inside their cars and the other person is none the wiser, now they'll get to hear what the person thinks about that accident they almost just caused, agree a good place to stop and settle it with some fisticuffs? Brilliant!]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 7th 2007 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 6th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
I live in New Jersey. We're angry enough to each other on the road.]]>Dec 6th 2007 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
On another note: isn't this more or less the system featured in "I, Robot"? It starts with car-to-car, and then they implement comprehensive AI to direct them all--and then we're at war with the robots.]]>Dec 6th 2007 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 6th 2007 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/Dec 6th 2007 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/japan-to-use-700mhz-band-for-inter-vehicle-communications-system/
I've seen video of cars using inter-vehicle communications in combination with some kind of proximity sensor to achieve a kinda car train that benefited from shared wind resistance. In say a 5 car train, all the cars would accelerate and brake at the same time.]]>Dec 6th 2007 11:49PM