BBC News: Networks promise ‘accident-free’ cars
The risk of having an accident in a car could soon be drastically cut thanks to a new approach to wireless networks.
Embedded sensor networks are designed to replace existing networks that can only share information that has already been captured and stored.
Sensor networks instead take information from several individual nodes - potentially thousands of them in different locations - in real time, and can act on it accordingly.This means that during a journey, vehicles could monitor each other’s speed and position - and therefore dramatically cut the risk of accidents.
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