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* Japan - Honda develops technology designed to prevent traffic jams
(Photo: Shutterstock: Honda has developed technology designed to orevent the 'accordion effect' that can bring traffic to a standstill)
Tokyo,Japan -Gizmag, by Darren Quick -April 26, 2012: ... Now Honda has developed a world first technology that can detect whether the driving patterns of a vehicle are likely to lead to this kind of traffic congestion and suggests ways to avoid it. The system monitors the driver’s acceleration and deceleration patterns and, if it determines they have the potential to create a traffic jam, it encourages smoother driving via a color-coded display... Honda says the system can be further improved by connecting it to cloud servers. This allows a vehicle’s Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system to automatically activate at the right time to sync with the driving patterns of vehicles located further up the road and maintain a constant distance between them... Honda conducted testing of the system in conjunction with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo...
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