Friday, March 18, 2011

Ford's vision for the safety of tomorrow

As traffic safety can be improved in the future, Ford is currently testing on an "intelligent traffic intersection, which is in close proximity to the group created its own research and development center in Dearborn, near Detroit (USA). At this junction the traffic lights to communicate with specially equipped vehicles to them in time to warn of potential dangers - for example if a road user apparently ignored the red light of its traffic lights and intends to enter into the crossing area.

The keywords for the future research in this regard were: "Vehicle-to-vehicle communication" ("V-2 V" = Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication) and "vehicle-to-infrastructure communication" ("V-2 -I '= Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication). These technologies combine to enhance the well-known from the new Focus electronic assistance systems with complex communications and detection systems and.

A sophisticated electronics collected from the attempt crossing the current status of the right of way and compares them with the GPS data and other digital information from the vehicles. Recognizes the electronics in this way a danger to be warned the on-board systems of the vehicles involved automatically, so that their accident avoidance system can be activated also in Europe is driving Ford to develop 'V-2 V and V-2-I "systems forward.

Founded in 1994, then the European Ford Research Centre in Aachen in cooperation with other car manufacturers, institutions and government organizations in the development projects. One of the key projects is the research project "Safe Intelligent Mobility - Test Area Germany, abbreviated simTD.

This still ongoing until the end of 2012 large-scale trial with 400 vehicles, including over 60 of the Ford brand, focused on the metropolitan Frankfurt / Main. In addition, Ford is committed under the "Drive C2X" project (vehicle-to-X communication, the "X" is a placeholder for Car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication) for a single European standard for network-centric communications and application systems.

Drive C2X is funded by the European Commission and stands for "Driving implementation and evaluation of C2X communication technology in Europe" (preparation of the implementation and evaluation of C2X communication technologies ").

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