Talking cars will reduce road accidents: Bahrain expert

Manama : Cars will soon be able to communicate with each other and it will significantly reduce road accidents, according to an autonomous car technology expert.

“Technologies, which allow vehicles to communicate with each other, are being developed in various parts of the world. The technology will be integrated with self-driving cars. Although fully autonomous cars are not allowed on public roads, it is one of the most hotly anticipated technologies. With the development of driverless vehicles, another technology which allows cars to communicate with each other is being developed,” said Dr. Georges Aoude. 

“Soon cars will communicate with each other to avoid accidents,” Dr. Aoude said.

“In the future, vehicles will communicate with each other. It will send important information to each other. So things like its current position on the map, where it is heading, its velocity will all be sent to its surroundings all the time. Imagine approaching an intersection and two cars are coming towards it, one of the traffic signal is showing a red light and the other showing the green light.  You would assume that the car that is passing the greenlight is safe to pass but due to some reason the car on the other traffic light which is red may pass through creating a risk for an accident. However, with vehicle to vehicle communication this risk can be avoided. The car crossing the green light can pick up on the danger and avoid it. So with this communication we can avoid collisions because the cars are able to process the data it receives from other cars and make decisions that are safe,” he said.