We’ve written before about vehicle-to-vehicle communication: how one day your car might not only “talk” to other cars, but also the infrastructure you’re driving on. That’s a far cry from an actual demonstration where you can get inside such a car and drive around.
This is just what the Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure project is showing off at the Cooperative Mobility Showcase 2010 in Amsterdam this week.
CVIS is Europe’s flagship program to find a universal platform for communicating cars, and it brings together 60 industrial, government and research organizations from all over Europe.
Visitors to the showcase can take a ride in one of the demonstration minivans to experience things like “wrong-way driver detection,” “green-light speed advice,” and social networking for drivers and passengers. According to the showcase, the future will also include online parking space availability and reservation.
Just to be clear, we’re well aware that there’s a good joke to be made about “talking cars” in Amsterdam, but we’ll pass. Stay in school, kids.
