Cars Conspiring

All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a proposal released Tuesday by the Transportation Department.

Officials say the technology holds the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths and transform driving.…

(Links to AP story.)
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Good idea? Probably more problems than helpful, like most such ideas.
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Here is the "Getting From Here to There" panel predicting this, though.