Ford Proposes New System Of Marshalling Traffic Through Car-To-Car Crypto Communications
28 März 2018 - 11:15AM
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American car manufacturer Ford has filed a patent for an
apparatus for vehicle-to-vehicle communication methods that
involves the exchange of crypto tokens to facilitate traffic flow, according to a
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent application published
yesterday, March 27.
Traffic congestion, according to Ford’s Sept. 16, 2017
patent application, is caused when reduced traffic flow “is
compounded due to the psychology of human drivers who focus on
their individual travel time preferences.” The patent proposes a
way to work around these individual preferences through a
“Cooperatively Managed Merge and Pass (CMMP)” system.
The application discusses the possibility for cars
with communication models and a cooperative adaptive cruise control
(CACC) to communicate with other cars through the exchange of CMMP
tokens, switching their priority from the individual to the “group
flow rate through the traffic cataract.”
Cars with this communication system would trade CMMP
tokens in individual transactions that could, for example, have one
car “occupy slower lanes of traffic” or allow another car to “merge
into their own lane and pass as necessary” as a way to marshall
traffic. The cars that sacrificed their individual time preferences
for the good of traffic flow would receive tokens from other
participating vehicles.
As another example, if a driver is “running late for
an appointment,” a request could be entered to pass any vehicles
for the next 10 minutes in exchange for a certain number of
tokens.
Earlier this month, German car manufacturer and parent company of
Mercedes-Benz, Daimler AG, introduced its own Blockchain-based digital currency that will reward environmentally
friendly, responsible drivers with coins that could be redeemed
for VIP events.
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