THELOGICALINDIAN - A apparent appliance filed by Ford describes a Cooperatively Managed Absorb and Pass CMMP arrangement that would acquiesce drivers defective to biking bound to use beneath chock-full lanes and biking added advisedly by advantageous added drivers in cryptocurrency Added alley users would move to slower affective lanes and acquiesce a advantageous disciplinarian to absorb or pass
Primarily, the patent, filed on September 16th, 2016, describes a arrangement for “vehicle-to-vehicle cooperation to align traffic” whereby accordant cartage acquaint electronically to analyze cartage “cataracts”. The “cooperative adaptive cruise ascendancy module”, already it has articular a cartage issue, can again alike with added accommodating cartage to anatomy a “platoon” which moves at a connected acceleration to finer cross the cartage avalanche or congestion.
Compatible cartage would be able with a “vehicle-to-vehicle advice module” and a “cooperative adaptive cruise ascendancy module”.
According to the apparent Ford is aiming to break an all too accepted issue:
In Ford’s proposed system, back a cartage avalanche is identified, antecedence switches from alone biking time preferences to a accumulation breeze amount through the cartage cataract.
There is, understandably, no adumbration of whether Ford’s account could appear to fruition, but Ford does additionally accredit to “standard vehicles” with no communications systems, actuality “marshalled” by “cooperative vehicles”.
The apparent additionally capacity an archetype arrangement alleged CMMP, area accommodating “merchant” cartage would accept a acquittal in units of cryptocurrency, or “CMMP tokens”, from “consumer vehicles” to acquiesce the customer cartage to merge, pass, and accept antecedence in faster affective lanes of cartage to ability their destination quicker.
The CMMP arrangement could acquiesce the “consumer” agent a assertive bulk of antecedence time based on how abounding CMMP tokens are spent.
The full patent, filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), goes into added detail about Ford’s proposed account and how they could, in theory, work.
How far off do you anticipate “platoons” of affiliated cartage abyssal cartage bottleneck are? Would you pay added drivers for abandon of the fast lane?
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