bookofjoe: P2P's successor - C2C?

bookofjoe: P2P's successor - C2C?: "Car-2-Car Communications Consortium, currently developing the new new thing in car technology." BMW, Fiat, Audi, Daimler-Chrysler, Volkswagen, and Renault have banded together to explore ways for cars of the future to warn each other of accidents and danger spots and automatically find new routes to avoid congestion.

They hope to create vehicles that can communicate via WiFi.

They hope to move from passive to active, in terms of avoidance and safety.
In the future, the system could automatically pre-tense the brakes in nearby cars, speeding the driver's reaction time, or instruct navigation computers in more distant vehicles to find alternative routes.

The WiFi technology would bounce information from car to car, using relatively short-range technology to create a large network of vehicles.
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