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NXP Semiconductors Wants Cars to Talk to Each Other
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April 8, 2013 | Comments (0)
It might seem like something out of Terminator: Rise of the Machines, but in an effort to make the roads safer as well as more efficient to travel upon, NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI ) is imagining a future where cars communicate not only with one another but with the road and environment around them.
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Through a consortium of companies including car manufacturers like Honda and Audi, along with technology partners such as mapmaker TomTom, NEC, and TE Connectivity, as well as a number of universities and research institutes, NXP is looking to implement and deploy a wireless communications network between cars and the highway infrastructure around them.
For example, the technology would allow cars to communicate with one another and could essentially "see" around corners to detect danger even before it was visible to the driver, or to warn of traffic jams or approaching emergency vehicles
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