Hoping car data sharing helps with the 'are we there yet'
I remember as a kid sitting in the back seat, just hoping there was a way to know what the traffic ahead of us was. Yes, there was radio updates -but this took forever. I always believed that there should be an easier and quicker way.
As I learn more about Bug Labs and Fords OPENXC project, a platform that give developers access to information out of the CPUs in modern cars. I can't help but to get excited. This is a step closer to the not-so-crazy idea I had as a kid. I imagined every car on the highway with two black like cubes on the bumpers, and these cubes were to pass on information from the previous cars. If cars miles ahead had slowed and subsequently the others behind, then this information would have eventually been passed on to the information cube in my parents car.
I never went into details on how this would actually functions as a kid, just knew that the idea of sharing data from cars ahead could make my life easier. Now understanding, what are reasonable projects, I truly hope car manufacturers maximizes data sharing from cars -even if it is to more accurately answer 'are we there yet?'