Ford Looking At Using Smartphones, Bluetooth, And 5G For Advanced Pedestrian And Bicyclist Detection | Carscoops carscoops
As part of a research project with Commsignia, PSS, Ohio State University, T-Mobile and Tome Software, the automaker is exploring using an app to alert drivers about nearby pedestrians and bicyclists.to communicate their location to nearby Ford vehicles. If the vehicle determines there is a potential for a collision, it could alert drivers and show them the location of the pedestrian or bicyclist even if they’re not visible to the human eye.
The company went on to note smartphones effectively become beacons and the system can differentiate pedestrians from bicyclists based on their speed. The technology is also able to tell which direction people are traveling in and this helps to determine if a collision is imminent. Ford will demonstrate the technology in Los Angeles later this week and the automaker noted it’s an “affordable and scalable” solution as Bluetooth Low Energy technology is widely available in smartphones. It is also compatible with SYNC connected vehicle technology without any hardware changes.
Furthermore, Ford and T-Mobile will demonstrate a version of the technology which uses a 5G connection instead of Bluetooth. This helps to minimize the “round-trip data travel time, allowing detection alerts to quickly be delivered to the vehicle’s SYNC screen.” Ford’s Executive Director of Research and Advanced Engineering, Jim Buczkowski, said “We are now exploring ways to expand vehicle sensing capability, for areas drivers cannot see, to help people drive even more confidently on roads increasingly shared by others using their two feet or two wheels.
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