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Whilst I agree with your point, I'd also like to see an additional strategy employed.

How about emergency vehicles broadcast on 5Ghz their intended route (for the next 300 meters) or just that they are blue light in the area.

This would only be active in a blue light situation. Manufacturers can then add a detection and warn the driver.

A while back I heard about car to car communications, but I heard next to nothing these days, this is a great use case if you ask me. If someone has more details of recent developments, I'd love to read more.



Good luck getting this rolled out in even a fraction of the emergency vehicles on the roads.

There are literally tense of thousands of these emergency departments and even more when you consider other vehicles which may be stopped roadside.

Perhaps something great to discuss for the future but not at all practical for the next few years or even decade.


> How about emergency vehicles broadcast on 5Ghz their intended route (for the next 300 meters)

How would the vehicle know what the driver intends to do in the next 15-30 seconds (depending on speed)?


can't wait to start making clones of the device for taxi fleets so they too get all the green lights and clear lanes :)




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