Comments on: BMW Car-2-X Communication improves pedestrian safety

By: X5 SoB

X5 SoB — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:54:10 +0000

Honestly, who proofreads these monikers? Being driven to a church to be excomunicated is almost as bad as having a Fiesta Movement.

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By: X5 SoB

X5 SoB — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:46:20 +0000

Car 2 X comunication? Is that like stealing the Popemobile?

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By: jon H

jon H — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:07:15 +0000

interesting idea……and the execution? interesting too.

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By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:46:41 +0000

@okeribok: Agree partially — this will kill only the ones that don’t care or aren’t savvy enough to have a transponder.

This is just a weird idea. They can’t possibly expect people to buy a specific pedestrian safety device and carry it. They also can’t expect it to work reliably on the already congested and prone to being obscured and reflected.

It would make sense to integrate this as a feature to cell-phones, although…. considering that cell-phones constantly emit their own signals, why not devise a receiver that isolates existing cellular signals by proximity and direction? That would be an input to an overall system that can composite data from various sensors into much more decisive don’t-hit-me feedback to the driver.

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By: okeribok

okeribok — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:14:21 +0000

This will never work. Pedestrians don’t care enough about their safety to carry anything, or even look before they leap.

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