Saturday, February 02, 2008
Net-Centric Systems to Guide Trucks
Perhaps you have heard about the Future of Net-Centric Automobiles? The car's systems will all work together like a Company Office and its computer system. Even better all these four-wheeled net-centric systems will have a system like the wireless Internet and they will communicate with each other and the Smart-Highways of the Future.
This means no car can ever crash into another car, because the other car will be talking to it at all times giving its changing coordinates. How is this possible you ask? Well each car will be using the same systems and satellites with the same information. Sounds to Sci Fi for you? Well that is okay, because in a way it is really, as this is some ways off in the future.
Although once these systems are in place and working well fewer people will be killed in auto-accidents and that is a very good thing. Losing 40,000 people per year to accidents is a horrific thing indeed.
Of course many Modern Trucks are already on their way to doing some of this. The Truck's digital nervous system is already in constant contact with all its components. The Truck itself may be in constant contact with the satellite and the dispatch office.
The Truck's Transponder talks with the computer system at the truck Scale, Toll-ways and at Border Checkpoints. Soon more and more roads will also contact the truck for warnings and traffic alerts. So all that is really left is simply allowing them to talk together with all the other cars and that is the net-centric vehicle vision of the future and it will save lives.
This means no car can ever crash into another car, because the other car will be talking to it at all times giving its changing coordinates. How is this possible you ask? Well each car will be using the same systems and satellites with the same information. Sounds to Sci Fi for you? Well that is okay, because in a way it is really, as this is some ways off in the future.
Although once these systems are in place and working well fewer people will be killed in auto-accidents and that is a very good thing. Losing 40,000 people per year to accidents is a horrific thing indeed.
Of course many Modern Trucks are already on their way to doing some of this. The Truck's digital nervous system is already in constant contact with all its components. The Truck itself may be in constant contact with the satellite and the dispatch office.
The Truck's Transponder talks with the computer system at the truck Scale, Toll-ways and at Border Checkpoints. Soon more and more roads will also contact the truck for warnings and traffic alerts. So all that is really left is simply allowing them to talk together with all the other cars and that is the net-centric vehicle vision of the future and it will save lives.
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