Yui also addresses a key area of focus for autonomous driving and making it viable on real roads: Communicating with pedestrians and other vehicles.
The road thus communicates "Beware!" to the driver — and eventually, perhaps, to the car itself.
Specifically, vehicles on the road can communicate with each other through a multi-hop ad hoc connection.
Bike riders and motorists both need to do their part, by following all the rules of the road and communicating.
As for a business benefit, for us, it's mostly about telling our customers where we will be on the road and communicating our successes.
The next car equipped with this advanced system that comes down the same road will get a warning communicated from the cloud as it approaches the dangerous stretch of road.
On the road, struggling to communicate, I said something about the "beautiful temples," only meaning that there were many around there, but the taxi driver thought I wanted to see them.
The other one sketched V2V case with two similar clusters located on one side of the road and two communicating mobiles passing by.
He goes on to outline how close he got when he discovered a major security flaw - no encryption on the wireless connection that allows road sensors to communicate with traffic lights.
Her children, and their children, could have a high emotional stake in the affluence they inherit -- wealth and success will not be taken for granted if the significance of the road to earning them is communicated clearly.
While the product is for walkways, not roads, the idea of an intelligent, Internet-connected road that communicates with drivers — or just with their automobiles, in the case of autonomous cars — is also in the works.
