Highways are very much an every-driver-for-themselves kind of place. While we hope the majority of people will do whatever they can to avoid accidents and not take silly risks, ultimately every individual has to watch out for their own hides.
But what if getting on the highway also meant joining a wireless mesh network consisting of all the cars around you? Cars could become a self-organizing entity, avoiding collisions and minimizing traffic congestion. The cars themselves would be smart enough to cooperate with each other.
"You can imagine in the future, you could enter the highway, mesh with five or six other vehicles around you and you caravan together," said Dan Rabinovitsj, senior VP of chipmaker Qualcomm Atheros's networking business unit. "You're essentially making sure you're not just keeping proper distance from the front and back, which a number of vehicles do today, but literally in 360 degrees. And of course passing along messages: there's a policeman up ahead, there's an accident up ahead, or there's a stoplight. All of these things are starting to intersect."
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But what if getting on the highway also meant joining a wireless mesh network consisting of all the cars around you? Cars could become a self-organizing entity, avoiding collisions and minimizing traffic congestion. The cars themselves would be smart enough to cooperate with each other.
"You can imagine in the future, you could enter the highway, mesh with five or six other vehicles around you and you caravan together," said Dan Rabinovitsj, senior VP of chipmaker Qualcomm Atheros's networking business unit. "You're essentially making sure you're not just keeping proper distance from the front and back, which a number of vehicles do today, but literally in 360 degrees. And of course passing along messages: there's a policeman up ahead, there's an accident up ahead, or there's a stoplight. All of these things are starting to intersect."
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