Road Trains to Make Cars Drive Themselves
Without a car on the road in this day and age you are going to find it hard to do anything at all, cars are essential to commute and get around in. But one of the main problems is that people get very tired of commuting daily. But this may be all referable to alter in the next few years, A European Union project called SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) is to be launched to evolve and test technology for vehicles that can travel in ‘road trains’ on motorways.
Basically how this would work is when a car joins the motorway, they would slot into a convoy of up to 10 vehicles, the cars would then drive themselves automatically until they are due to leave the motorway. So how would this work then? Well, fundamentally each and every vehicle would communicate with one another on the satellite piloting systems, they would then pass the data over to the other vehicles and in return get back signals on how slow or fast to go and how close they are to other vehicles.
So how would this help assist people? Well, first off it would allow people to rest while they are commuting, just as they would if they were travelling on a train. Next it would promote a greener environment because the cars would be much more close knit and finally it would help stop traffic and road accidents, because of the fact that the cars will be driving so close to each other, but in essence communicating with each other to avoid any potentially fat collisions or knocks that usually occur on such busy roads.
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