This equipment may only Norwegian and Swedish vehicle owners – Tønsberg Blad

New technology and modern communication facilities makes advances going unusually fast.

Some feels like tomorrow’s technology is here today. This applies in many areas. Also around the car and in car safety.

Here is Volvo among those farthest reaching. They have hairy goal that no one will perish in a new Volvo by 2020.

They are also quick to launch new and pioneering technology. One of the latest additions on the trunk is what they call Slippery Road Alert – abbreviated to SRA.

Only in Norway and Sweden

It is a system that, in any case, than so long, will find only cars sold in Norway and Sweden.

the system in brief, that if a Volvo, and thus the car and not the driver, discovers that the road has slippery sections, then you the need to notify this to other cars nearby. Thus, they can again notify their driver who is made aware of the danger in good time.

The message shared through vehicles that are connected Volvo cloud, which is a separate, anonymous datadelings cloud for Volvos.

Such services can have many benefits. Both in terms of security of those who are in cars, but also society at large. A further development of the systems can arise, for example to those engaged in the maintenance of the roads where something must be done, and prioritized. As such, the system can save both lives and health – and money.

This is just the start

cOMMUNICATING: This simple sketch shows how Volvo imagines that cars can communicate with each other.

so far tested this out in 1,000 cars, of a Volvo XC90, V90 and S90. but there is little reason to believe that it stops here . This is enough for fully in the near future. And will be further developed.

Already spoken as “smart cities”, with their own “clouds” where cars give each other information. This can optimize the traffic lights so that the entire flow of traffic is better on the roads it is most traffic. it can make your car’s navigation system to re-calculate the route if there is a queue, cork or other events.

it is spoken and research is also on street lighting that illuminates only stretches that have bad driving, to save energy. Or if gatebelysing that can change color if there is a stretch of road that is smooth. According to information from the cars passing gear.