On the internet Nobody Knows You’re a Car
This is actually pretty cool aside from the privacy issues. Of course, I think we are going to all have to give up on privacy in this always connected, digital age.
Shortly, when our refrigerators are connected, the cars are connected and the technology for auto driving that they’ve already tested in Australia and Detroit are combined, our Roomba vacuum cleaners will be able to go get a gallon refill on the moo juice.
On the positive side, traffic jam reporting will be instantaneous, OnStar like 911 systems will be included in every vehicle and centrally updated mapping will be centrally updated.
A new radio system developed in Australia is transforming the vehicles on the street into nodes on a network. The technology, designed by scientists at the University of Southern Australia’s Institute for Telecommunications Research, is an application called “Dedicated Short Range Communications” (DSRC). Using a combination of GPS and Wi-Fi, cars can communicate their location data to a central office, but it also enables them to communicate with each other.
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