This news article caught my eye “Talking’ cars could reduce motorway pile-ups” and it made for some interesting reading…

It seems that the boffins interested in automotive technology are making vehicles (or the smart devices that their drivers carry) talk to each other and warn of things such as accidents on the road ahead.

What a fantastic thing to have

Imagine zooming along the road and your car lets you know of a pile-up ahead – allowing you to pull off the motorway and find a better route to your destination.
Marvellous ~ but I don’t think it goes far enough…

Surely it would be better if you didn’t have the option of having an accident in the car in the first place!

I’m of the belief that their will be no significant reduction in the amount of accidents on the roads until we remove the ability to make mistakes from the drivers. Remove the tired/drunk/drugged/visually impaired/slow reacting/stupid/stressed/confused drivers from the roads (that pretty much means everyone the enters a vehicle) and you’ve got a much safer environment for all concerned.

This of course would be met with such a massive amount of derision and rejection that it’s probably not going to happen within the scant span of my terrestrial existence sadly :( but is the best way to stop the tragedy that  ruins lives when something major happens on the British roads.

I remember a fairly recent news article showing the testing of cars communicating with each other whilst driving at high speed, a few centimetres apart ~ Safely
Not a feat I could imagine many drivers accomplishing, despite their best efforts to practise this particular skill behind me on the many journeys around Yorkshire I take, but it does show that the technology is moving in the right direction in my opinion.

One can only hope that this technology matures at a much more rapid pace…

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