Current Event:
While researching current events, I found a particular website that interested me. This website talks about how in approximately 1-2 years, cars will be able to communicate to each other in order to avoid crashes. The definition of car communication the site uses, "A simple wireless technology promises to make driving much safer." This invention will benefit the human kind especially in our society today. It was reduce the risk of accidents caused by texting, being tired, or being under the influence of a drug substance or alcohol. According to the site, around 1 million people are killed in car crashes every year, and because of this newly invented technology, many of those lives can be now saved. This invention is very complex and well thought out in my opinion, "The computers aboard each car process the various readings being broadcast by other vehicles 10 times every second, each time calculating the chance of an impending collision. Transmitters use a dedicated portion of wireless spectrum as well as a new wireless standard, 802.11p, to authenticate each message." I am very excited to see how this invention will work in our society, whether it will help Americans or make us lazier.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534981/car-to-car-communication/
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