Satellite car alarm function with supervisory control now allow remotely turn off the engine in case of suspicion of stealing the vehicle. According to British newspaper , the European authorities are hatching a new legislative initiative that will force all manufacturers to equip the end of the decade remote switch all the cars officially sold in Europe. The initiative to stop the fuel supply remotely so police officer will be able to prevent the consequences of the pursuit of a particular car, driven by the offender.
Of course, this initiative has enough enemies. First, cut the fuel at high speed on a busy traffic artery can create an emergency situation with human victims. Second, Europeans are not prepared mentally to such interference and limitation of their democratic freedoms.
American authorities responsible for safety on the roads, according to the site CNet, cook another initiative - they plan to oblige manufacturers of cars sold in the country to equip them with the means of information exchange class V2V (vehicle to vehicle - vehicle-to-vehicle) from next year. The standard provides for the use of varieties of 802.11 wireless LAN interface for the exchange of information about the location and speed of the vehicle at intervals ten times per second. It is assumed that this is sufficient to prevent collisions of vehicles moving in the same direction - on the base of data obtained V2V system cars will automatically slow down or go around obstacles arise suddenly. Tests of such complexes have been completed successfully, it remains to settle legal formalities.
Class technology V2I (vehicle to infrastructure) imply survey vehicle surrounding objects of the road network type signs and traffic lights. They will be developed in parallel with V2V.