Nissan has unveiled the company’s fourth edition of its Advanced Safety Vehicle. Designed to test the latest safety technology, the newest example uses a technology that can talk with other cars and even cell phones. The ASV4 vehicle is the result of a joint venture between Nissan and Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
The GPS-based technology allows Nissan’s navigation system — the down fall of this technology is that it only works with Nissan products — to communicate with other cars and warn the drivers of vehicles they might not be able to see. According to Nissan, the technology was developed in an effort to reduce the kind of accidents that represent 60% of all traffic accidents in Japan — collisions at blind-intersections, rear-end collisions and right-turning vehicle hit by on-coming vehicle from the opposite direction at an intersection. The technology could also be used to communicate will cell phones in an attempt to reduce the number of pedestrians involved in auto accidents.
The goal of the ASV project — set to be achieved by 2015 — is to reduce the number of Nissan vehicles involved in fatal or serious auto accidents in Japan by 50% compared to the number of incidents in 1995.
09/28, 3:41 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
Where are the first three?
09/28, 3:54 PM
posted by:
buenos
The first three got involved in, like, really important cell phone calls with like, other cars, about like stuff, like what they were wearing, and where they were going, and like…ooops… then they hit a tree.
09/28, 5:12 PM
posted by:
jamaicandude
This system has been in development since the late 90’s (I’m almost sure, but don’t quote me on it) and the previous iterations have only been available in Japan… kinda logical, considering it’s a joint venture with Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
09/28, 5:50 PM
posted by:
Commodore
Someday all cars and cell phones will be able to communicate so this is a good step in that direction
09/28, 6:07 PM
posted by:
Bmwrulz
good now the slow-ass goon in front of me will know i’m coming up on him fast and hopefully he’ll get out of the way. maybe they should make an automated system for that!
09/28, 6:44 PM
posted by:
Deanster
I want a harpoon on the front of my car so I can ****ing harpoon fat midwestern housewives when they piss me off. When is someone gonna make a harpoon?
09/28, 7:05 PM
posted by:
jJayC08
Yes, Jamaicandude, but most of them use radar or sound, like Volvo and Mercedes (it was recently featured on LLN).
bmwrulz, that’s the attitude that gets you into an accident in the first place.
09/28, 7:18 PM
posted by:
Bryce
I want a car with a nav. system that informs me where police cars are.
09/28, 7:33 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
bmwrulz: yeah, right.
More likely, there’ll be an automated sytems that makes every car drive at the exact same “recommended” speed, and youre 7-Series will be hemmed in by subcompacts
deantj: With all the spears you’d need, metal prices would be so high no one could afford a car.
Bryce: another useful idea!
09/28, 8:40 PM
posted by:
bran
This will cause more problems, not limit them. No one will look at the road anymore to drive, they will just stare at the screen to see where a car may be. Maybe they can create a system that allows blind people to “see” all other motorists and pedestrians.
09/28, 9:20 PM
posted by:
dtn521
Bryce: LOL hell ya
09/29, 1:04 AM
posted by:
Bmwrulz
jJayC08, its not the fast ones that cause the accident, unless they are just that stupid but more its the slow ones that get in the way and go so slow its like they are trying to piss us, “attentive” and quick drivers, off.
Bryce, I’ve been wanting that system since I’ve been driving, which is 17yrs ago and I’m 20. lol
09/29, 2:49 AM
posted by:
A4
i wonder how much cheaper that M35 is with a nissan badge on it
09/29, 9:36 AM
posted by:
jJayC08
OH I know exactly what you mean bmwrulz… I hate it when the person in front of you is doing 40 mph, usually older people, while the speed limit is 65. The first thing that came to my mind when you said that though, was I remember some guy in the next lane to me was tailgating a Volvo, which was slowing down, and all of a sudden the Volvo stops to pull into a tight parking lot. The idiot lost his bumper, and suprisingly the Volvo just kept on moving without the driver even taking notice to the accident.
I would rather have a snowplow, or ramming device, instead of some computer system pulling them over =)
09/29, 1:53 PM
posted by:
BLISS
I HOPE ITS WELL WORTH IT
10/02, 12:02 AM
posted by:
Got Handling?
Nice to see a car manufacturer whose approach to safety is not simply passive. If manufacturers were to agree to adopt systems like these we might be able to reverse the trend of more and more heavier and heavier passive safety systems and eventually see lighter cars again. As always, the aircraft industry sets a great example of how prevention is better than cure.
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I want speed cameras that also issue tickets to cars driving with one or two empty lanes to their right, and cars that use their collision avoidance warning systems to point out that the driver has forgotten to pull back into the first lane after overtaking, maybe they could point it out with a sharp pointed ram to the back of the skull.