It’s not clear when, if ever, automakers will equip their cars with vehicle-to-vehicle communications systems that would prevent fender-benders at intersections.
But one supplier — Qualcomm Technologies Inc. — is trying to design such a system to help motorists avoid pedestrians and cyclists.
Chris Borroni-Bird, Qualcomm’s vice president of strategic development, says the company is developing a portable device that would broadcast the position of a pedestrian or cyclist. A properly equipped vehicle would receive that signal and warn the driver if the pedestrian was in the vehicle’s path, he said on the sidelines of the 2013 CAR Management Briefing Seminars here.
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