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Automated driving, like adaptive cruise control, may be the latest "must have" gizmos but the auto industry is already looking to their successor - cooperative driving. Cars can communicate with each other as they go. The technology is in its early stages but this past weekend, researchers drove to Holland to see if their cars would interact. Here's more.
The first international competition of "cooperative cars" was held on the outskirts of a small Dutch city of Helmond over the weekend.
The Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) aimed to test a fledgling system which researchers think could keep us moving despite the ever growing number of cars on the road.
GCDC manager Maurice Kwekkenaar explains that cooperative driving is where cars communicate with each other and roadside systems as well.
[Maurice Kwekkenaar, GCDC Manager]: "By doing this we can exchange information about for instance accidents, the status of the road, speed of other vehicles, accelerations, decelerations, and by doing that other vehicles can anticipate to the behavior and this results in safer and more efficient behavior."
Cooperative driving enables a more efficient use of the road by controlling braking and acceleration, allowing cars and trucks to safely drive much closer together.
Similar to modern adaptive cruise control systems that react to the vehicle in front, cooperative driving would inform all vehicles in a certain area of an obstacle or accident and reduce speed accordingly.
This would smooth out the braking and accelerating common in heavy traffic.
Sharing information would also make avoiding congestion much easier.
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