While most automakers are looking to improve real-time traffic data plumbed into cars and bring smarter rerouting to market, Honda is looking at another way of getting you out of traffic: preventing it in the first place.

via Honda Combining V2V, Coaching Technology to Ease Congestion | Autopia | Wired.com.

Smoothing out traffic by determining optimum speed for traffic flow for Adaptive Cruise Control ACC) vehicles communicated over the cloud, potentially increasing the average speed by approximately 23% and reducing fuel consumption by 8%.

Like our Smoothy hack!

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monitors the acceleration and deceleration patterns of the vehicle to determine whether the driver’s driving pattern is likely to create traffic congestion.

This is something I can perhaps look into for Singapore.

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HT Jason Du, Leo Urbina