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New technology will connect cars to other cars and even pedestrians
The automaker Ford today announced that it is collaborating with Qualcomm to equip vehicles with CV2X technology, a system that will allow them to connect to other cars, pedestrians and infrastructures without the need for a cellular network.The company's chief executive, Mr Butler, said today in Las Vegas that even though the new technology has not yet been tested, he expects that by 2019 every new vehicle in the company could include the same.With this new technology, cars communicate directly with "every component of the smart city" and this "conversation" will produce data that will be accessible in real time for the city's responsible authorities to solve "any problem".He gave the example of a driver with diabetes who is in crisis and his car, which identifies his vital signs, calls the emergency department, which receives the medical data and arrives to the place thanks to the redirection of traffic.The first tests of this new technology, that still do not have marked date, must take place in the North American cities of San Diego and Detroit, according to the mark.
The automaker Ford today announced that it is collaborating with Qualcomm to equip vehicles with CV2X technology, a system that will allow them to connect to other cars, pedestrians and infrastructures without the need for a cellular network.The company's chief executive, Mr Butler, said today in Las Vegas that even though the new technology has not yet been tested, he expects that by 2019 every new vehicle in the company could include the same.With this new technology, cars communicate directly with "every component of the smart city" and this "conversation" will produce data that will be accessible in real time for the city's responsible authorities to solve "any problem".He gave the example of a driver with diabetes who is in crisis and his car, which identifies his vital signs, calls the emergency department, which receives the medical data and arrives to the place thanks to the redirection of traffic.The first tests of this new technology, that still do not have marked date, must take place in the North American cities of San Diego and Detroit, according to the mark.
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