US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial 89
coondoggie writes "The U.S. Department of Transportation said it will run a massive road test of cars, trucks and buses linked together via WiFi equipment in what the agency says will be the largest test of automated crash avoidance technology to date. The test will be conducted by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and feature mostly volunteer participants whose vehicles have been outfitted with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication devices."
Ann Arbor drivers thinking about dissertations (Score:4, Funny)
Ann Arbor is a good place to start, its drivers are too preoccupied with their dissertations to watch the road...
Re:3000 WiFi radios at once ? (Score:4, Funny)
..the collisions caused by ~270 devices on the same channell will make that network unuseable.
With that many collisions, that would make the road pretty much unusable too.
mostly volunteer? (Score:4, Funny)
Will they at least tell the non-volunteers that their vehicle has been modified? I hope medical scientists don't pick up this new way of increasing the size of your test group.
surely... (Score:5, Funny)
...they are using the wrong networking topology? Token ring is the way to go if you don't want collisions .