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Ford trials ground-breaking mobile safety technology
Date: 17 August 2012 | Author: Jack Carfrae
Ford has begun testing a series of 'car-to-car' and 'car-to-infrastructure' mobile technologies, systems that are designed to communicate with each other to improve safety with the intention of filtering them down to production level in the future.
The project, known as Safe Intelligent Mobility, will last for four years and take place in and around the manufacturer's European research centre in Aachen, Germany, where a fleet of 20 S-max MPVs has been fitted with experimental driver aids.
Some of the systems under scrutiny include an electronic brake light, which communicates a message to the car behind following emergency braking; an obstacle warning system to flag up hazards on the road; traffic sign assistant, which stays in contact with traffic management centres to report directly on average speed limits and other regulations; public traffic management, which predicts likely traffic scenarios; and in-car internet access with the capacity to allow drivers to book and pay for parking while on the road.
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