Car-to-car communication will ensure that your automobile is impeccably informed about road conditions ahead.
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The project's goal is to better understand the potential for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure to improve traffic safety and personal mobility.
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"Car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications represent the next major advancements in vehicle safety, " said Paul Mascarenas, chief technical officer and vice president, Ford Research and Innovation.
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Ford is a global leader in researching car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications.
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Ford Motor Company today begins real-world testing of future technologies as part of a research programme aimed at advancing car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication to European roads.
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"There were a small number of extra car-to-car collisions in one area, but the reporting period was very short, and the numbers very small, " the council said in a statement.
The increasing use of car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure technology is part of Ford's "Blueprint for Mobility, " which was outlined by Executive Chairman Bill Ford during his keynote address at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
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That meant selling information to virtually anyone--inventory-tracking data to car dealers, load-matching service to truckers, coupon-printing kiosks to grocery stores and fire-alert information to forestry services.
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Pandora has long been the poster child of in-car compatibility, able to run on nearly every smart car platform known to man -- even quite a few that could only be called moderately intelligent.
So in 1992 Morris got rid of all 18 used-car lots to focus solely on financing used-car sales made by others.
This whole "connected Internet e-commerce crazy-fast buy-coffee-from-the-car" paradigm is starting to have some pretty interesting ramifications in our culture.
Wayne Burkhart, 68, built a four-car parking garage under his home connected to a four-car working garage.
There can be no greater tribute to some rank-and-file, made-by-the-million family car: I want to drive it again.
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Only one problem: Although I've driven fast before in race cars, you are toast if anything happens to a Lamborghini road car at high speeds, because it--unlike a race car--is not built to withstand extreme impacts at such speeds.
But taking a train station-to-station rather than driving a car door-to-door is guaranteed to be slower unless traffic jams are severe.
The grid needs short-, medium-, and longer-term storage to run smoothly, and car batteries could most easily meet the short-term need, a process called frequency regulation.
"When you engineer a technology-filled, all-electric mini car that goes from zero-to-60 mph in less than eight seconds, customers won't miss the gas, " said Mark Reuss, president, General Motors North America.
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Mr Richardson admits that selling the idea of environmentally-friendly public transport to car-happy New Mexicans was not easy at first.
Well, PocketNow got their hand on the top-end iCN 750 in-car navigation system to see just how useful downloading location-mapped pictures can be.
It does no good that Goodyear has 40% of the domestic-made new-car market--the car companies are in a position to squeeze every last penny out of the profit column.
Adding AppLink compatibility as factory-installed content to the iconic Mustang puts Ford further out front in the race to integrate smartphone apps into the car and shows the company's commitment to offer advanced in-car connectivity services and features to a widening range of vehicle owners.
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The first networks will work among cars in close proximity, but automakers hope eventually to enable critical signals to bounce rapidly down the highway from car to car to car, so-called multihop messaging.
The census revealed that in 2011, the majority of 16 to 74-year-olds drove a car or van to work - 58% or 15 million - while a further 5%, or 1.4 million, travelled to work as a passenger in a car or van.
"It is the worst gas guzzler I have owned since a 1976 Ford Elite, " he lamented of the Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) car in an e-mail to the Bluewater Network, a San Francisco-based environmental advocacy group.
Getaround is also working with the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to research peer-to-peer car-sharing with the aim of a wider nationwide roll-out.
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R-10 became the first diesel-powered car to win an endurance race, pipping a field of petrol-powered rivals to the post.
Another high-speed, high-definition camera, originally developed to film car crash tests, was used to capture an eye-popping scene of a Great White shark leaping out of the water to devour a seal in midair.
Beneath its carbon fiber skin the 6.5-litre V12 engine and seven-speed single-clutch gearbox get the car to 60 miles per hour in a flat three seconds.
The Fusion--and an array of car-based derivatives it spawned--represents Ford's strategy to climb back into the passenger car segment (in which its U.S. market share has fallen from 22% a decade ago to 14%).
But given the 18- to 34-year-old, first-car audience, timeless restraint is not the design vibe to shoot for.
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