With inter-vehicle communication, you could prevent a lot of accidents. The simplest way is just brake awareness. If a vehicle ahead of you breaks, your vehicle could know about it. Not only that, but it could know the breaking distance of the car ahead and all the breaking distances of the cars behind you.
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.
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With inter-vehicle communication, you could prevent a lot of accidents. The simplest way is just brake awareness. If a vehicle ahead of you breaks, your vehicle could know about it. Not only that, but it could know the breaking distance of the car ahead and all the breaking distances of the cars behind you.
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.