RLJ - will this help?

Blue Meanie

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01 ... t_jumpers/

notsoblue

"The goal is to build the software into the next generation of smart cars, which would use vehicle-to-vehicle communication to warn drivers that there is a prat about to jump the light"

Hah!

phy2sll2

Perhaps this could be integrated with pop-up tyre shredders.

kieranb

I hope they're not basing all their research on data from one junction! Obviously didn't employ a statistician at the design stage of their data collection.

Twostage

There would be a problem if you are following a predicted RLJ. Your computer would say 'relax, this guy is going through so you can take your time braking'. What happens if the RLJ then changes their mind at the last second ? Crunch.

bails87

twostage: You should always be able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear. So if the car in front stops dead and you hit him then it's your fault for being too close, whether or not some psychic computer has told you he's going straight on

Twostage

bails87 wrote:

twostage: You should always be able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear. So if the car in front stops dead and you hit him then it's your fault for being too close, whether or not some psychic computer has told you he's going straight on

Good advice but people learn to rely on what they are told by a machine i.e. sat nav. How many people ended up in rivers because the tom tom told them to turn left ? Most of the people who use sat nav to get to our house spend ages going through a local private estate round windy, badly surfaced roads blithely ignoring the 'private road' signs because that is the way they are being told to go so they have to go that way. :roll:
Whilst on the subject of futurist vehicle technology speculation I wonder what else vehicle-to-vehicle communication would bring ?

stuartturbo

Red lights i generally look to see if anyone is doing it

Blue Meanie

Twostage wrote:

bails87 wrote:

twostage: Whilst on the subject of futurist vehicle technology speculation I wonder what else vehicle-to-vehicle communication would bring ?

I've always hoped for Motorway Road Trains - where cars form up behind a big truck and from pelotons, monitored and controlled by 'puters

Twostage

Blue Meanie wrote:

Twostage wrote:

bails87 wrote:

twostage: Whilst on the subject of futurist vehicle technology speculation I wonder what else vehicle-to-vehicle communication would bring ?

I've always hoped for Motorway Road Trains - where cars form up behind a big truck and from pelotons, monitored and controlled by 'puters

That happens now when a lorry pulls out to overtake another lorry, going uphill at .000001 mph faster than the lorry it is overtaking and you are stuck in a huge queue of cars waiting for the painfully slow overtake. Then when you get to the top of the hill and the manouvre is complete and you are going downhill the overtaken lorry pulls out to retake as it can go .000001 mph faster downhill than the lorry that has overtaken it :evil: :evil: :evil:

deptfordmarmoset

Twostage wrote:

Blue Meanie wrote:

Twostage wrote:

bails87 wrote:

twostage: Whilst on the subject of futurist vehicle technology speculation I wonder what else vehicle-to-vehicle communication would bring ?

I've always hoped for Motorway Road Trains - where cars form up behind a big truck and from pelotons, monitored and controlled by 'puters

That happens now when a lorry pulls out to overtake another lorry, going uphill at .000001 mph faster than the lorry it is overtaking and you are stuck in a huge queue of cars waiting for the painfully slow overtake. Then when you get to the top of the hill and the manouvre is complete and you are going downhill the overtaken lorry pulls out to retake as it can go .000001 mph faster downhill than the lorry that has overtaken it :evil: :evil: :evil:

I take it you're describing the A1.