Foursprung: BMW and Renault car warning each other

BMW and Renault are going one step ahead in vehicle communication and safety. Until today the cars do more or less not communicate to external and/or other vehicles. There are several telematics service for repair or rescuing funtions but there is no communication to vehicles - from the same brand or others.

Now BMW and Renault started to develop car-to-car communication systems for enabling cars to exchange data - i.g. warning each other. BMW describes a szenario in which a driver passing an accident location notifies about this just by pressing a button. The traffic control center gets the GPS coordinates of the accidents. In addition to this the dangerous spot is communicated to other vehicles heading for the location.

The experience from the cooperation shall also be provided to the Car-to-Car Communication Consortium - consisting of eight car makers and twelve research partners trying to build an industry standard based of worldwide harmonized readio frequency for the car-to-whatever communication.

The cooperation is part of the European research project "Global System for Telematics" (GST).This project supported by the European Community is meant to develop an open architecture for interoperable telematics applications.

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Source: golem.de (german only)

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