Cars of the near future will be able to exchange information with "cloud" services, even if their management is still managed by a person at the wheel. He will need to warn about congestion and accidents, difficult sections of the road, the appearance of ice, and also lure advertising offers from roadside infrastructure facilities. Similar concepts for collecting information from vehicles moving along roads are offered by Volvo, Toyota, NVIDIA, and now Ford joins them.
In 2017, the corporation intends to begin testing a system using cameras and sensors of serial vehicles to compile a virtual road defect map, the data of which would be updated continuously, and served to promptly warn drivers about approaching such defects.
Engineers at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Aachen are working on a new technology that will help reduce the number of accidents due to road surface defects, as drivers will be warned in a timely manner about holes and potholes on the road. When the car approaches the pit, with the help of cameras and built-in sensors, the system reads the data on the condition of the roadway, and then transfers them to a virtual cloud in the Ford navigation system. At this point on the map of the navigator
other Ford owners will display a point warning drivers about a pothole on the road. "The virtual map of the pits will be able to immediately inform drivers about the potential threat on the way," said Uwe Hoffman, a test engineer for the Ford of Europe chassis division, Ford cars are already equipped with sensors capable of recognizing pits, now we want to bring this technology to a new level ".
It is noteworthy that for testing Ford uses a special range, whose roads with a length of 80 km have a specially spoiled coating. The heaviest plot of 1.9 km in length literally consists of solid pits and ruts. Related Products :
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