Ford Develops Traffic Lights That Go Green For Emergency Vehicles | Carscoops carscoops
When emergency vehicles are on their way to help people, the last thing they want to have to do is negotiate traffic at intersections. So Ford of Europe is helping to develop smarter traffic lights that communicate with first responder vehicles to help get them to their destination faster., the last thing anyone wants is for these drivers to be caught up among other vehicles waiting for the lights to change,” said Martin Sommer, research engineer, Automated Driving Europe, Ford of Europe.
The technology behind this is known as Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything and Ford installed it on a road in Aachen, Germany, with eight consecutive traffic lights. It then fitted with onboard communication units that pretended to be an ambulance for the purposes of this test.
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