[SystemSafety] TCAS for cars

[Martyn Thomas]

On 21/07/2016 00:00, Les Chambers wrote:

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> a simple device that you throw into your glovebox pretty
> much like a mobile phone that calculates your vehicle's current GPS
> coordinates, speed and heading and transmits it on a wireless net to the
> surrounding vehicles. A simple calculation would then be able to predict a
> collision. The cheap model would just sound an alarm. The more expensive
> model would be integrated into the vehicles braking system.

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Great idea. I'll buy one to keep in my pocket as a pedestrian. No more
waiting at road crossings and, if I connect it to my GPS simultor I can
stop the morning traffic rat-run outside my house too.

Martyn