Honda's latest patent can enable car owners superpower-like features behind their wheels. This new patent will give drivers an augmented-reality driving. Brings us a step closer to the Ironman suit.
Road accidents happen very often nowadays, 4,432 fatalities were reported back in 2011, and that number grows every year. It is just right that while everyone is working on speeding up cars and making the best ones on the road, some are working to help lessen accidents and promote safe driving.
This patent by Honda is the second they launched, the first one they presented is a technology to predict pedestrians. The first technology warns and enables a driver to stop when pedestrian/s steps in front of the car; a system will give the driver a warning on a screen mounted on the dashboard, and the pedestrian gets an alert thru his/her phone. For this to happen, the pedestrians need to install an app.
This first patent is still on its way but already Honda launched another new one. This new technology will work as vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
As Honda explains it, this can work in the line of 3 cars. Each car should be capable of the V2V system, with it, the car on the lead will communicate or send signals to the car in the middle, calculating the distance between them, the car in the middle does the same to the car behind it.
The result is an augmented-reality driving displayed in the head-up displays (HUD), informing every driver of the distance they have between other cars. This will serve as a monitor/warning system to regulate the speed as they travel to prevent collisions.
This technology is impressive and is really helpful as the awareness of a car in front of you could greatly affect how you drive. Not to mention how this would make it look like a virtual reality game (through your HUD).
With Honda having driving technologies patented, it is possible that in the near future, these driving innovations would be widely available.
We are, indeed, living (and driving) in exciting times.
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