10-13-2015, 04:43 PM
(10-13-2015, 04:33 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Why do people think safety regulations will allow vehicles to travel at that speed with that gap? Won’t some sort of device between successive cars be needed?
Why do you need to physically couple them? so long as they are in constant communication they can act as one.
The communication protocol standard is being worked on as we speak. The cars will work in unison, transmitting acceleration information (positive and negative) to each other as well as change of direction. So a car will tell others that it is about to decouple and move to another lane, so the "train" opens up, car leaves said train, train closes up. By the time this is said and done, I expect to see the cars moving in a dedicated lane in the 401 at 180km/h.