Cars that communicate with each other are all the rage. Now Mazda’s getting in on the act, with a new system to stop its motors ploughing into each other.
Trials have already begun in Hiroshima, with Mazda’s Japanese boffins fine-tuning their two-vehicle “blind collision avoidance system”.
Apparently, the technology can avoid prangs when cars unexpectedly turn right in front of each other, as well as guarding against a nasty “rear-end” impact.
As well as that, however, Mazda’s also cooking up an early warning system, which will apply the brakes early if it deems a crash unavoidable. The idea is that it’ll shave precious seconds off human reaction times to reduce the damage of an impact.
Most excitingly, however, is its work on a “communications infrastructure” to tell cars about the road they’re driving on thanks to sensors in its surface. Weird and wacky stuff, soon we won’t need a steering wheel at all!
