Ford today announced details of its research on advanced crash avoidance systems. The company’s “Automatic Braking Intersection Collision Avoidance System” (ABICAS), currently under development, uses radio-based wireless sensors, GPS, and navigation information to detect the relative location of other radio-equipped test vehicles.
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The 13th International IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (“ITSC 2010”) will be held on Madeira Island, Sept. 19-22. With the theme of “On the Way to Intelligent Sustainable Mobility,” the event will focus on research and applications of leading advances in communications, computer, control, electronics, and information technologies relating to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
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With Nissan and GM set to deliver new all-electric cars to U.S. consumers later this year (pictured at left), Californians are agog at the prospect of the exhaust- and noise-free vehicles swishing around on their highways and byways. Nowhere was that more apparent than at this week’s “Plug-in 2010” conference in Silicon Valley.
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Market researcher Strategy Analytics reports that 2010 and 2011 are shaping up to be major years for the emergence of connected cars technologies, including telematics and vehicle-device connectivity solutions.
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A regional conference for experts and stakeholders in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic engineering and operations, and transportation planning will be held this December in Florida. “Transpo2010” will feature technical presentations, discussion, training, tours of nearby ITS facilities, and a technology expo, among other ITS-oriented activities.
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