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The primary reason of banging the vehicle is, losing control over acceleration and braking. The idea is to regulate the speed of the vehicle automatically whenever the vehicle sees another vehicle close to it. This can achieved by sensing the speed or distance of front vehicle and accordingle maintaining the accelaration/speed/breaking of your vehicle. There will be distance threshold i.e maximum distance below which your vehicle takes the control of speed and breaking automatically. This distance would be in few feets. Once this distance crosses the maximum limit it automatically gives you the full control. Also there should be cut off limit of 1 feet to avoid banging to front vehicle. This might be useful for citi traffic drive. There should be provision of activating & de-activating this system. regardsYogesh
yogesh, Jan 12 2009
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Great! So good to see others have the same ideas... why does our society does not make this work? Within SpiriLogic we have gulabeled this concept 'deJamIt' (due to the fact it can reduce congestion enormeously). This a subtype of the GuidCar (GuidCar) concept. It is also already known under 'Intelligent Cruis Control' (ICC) - see Wiki, but as we feel this term has primary the intention to serve the driver, whereas we primary want to reduce congestion and pollution.
An important element of GuidCar is that you just enter your destination when entering the highroad, and the system takes over. Benefits for all: less accidents, far more fluid traffic, etc. And in addition a central system instructs all guided cars about routing and speed, and thus optimizing the capacity of the roads (do not make new roads, optimize traffic). Within the internet the same is done: optimizing the amounts of packets going through the network.Does anybody already know an implementation?Iwanjka, SpiriLogic member
The sensors and technology required to implement this would be catastrophic and if one thing went wrong then who is to blame, the driver, or the car's manufacturer? Liability issues are through the roof on this one. How does the car know to slow down for a turn? Does it magically know that you are going to turn right on a specific street? You would probably end up having to plan your entire route before leaving in the vehicle and then there is no point in even driving the car. If it controls accelerating and braking, then why not steering too if it can avoid other cars. What about motorcycles?