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Tagged: talking cars

Transportation
12:04 pm
Tue August 21, 2012

"Talking" cars hitting the road in Ann Arbor

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Credit Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio
A glass panel display shows how vehicles equipped with the new technology will be able to communicate with one another and roadway infrastructure, like traffic signals
Credit Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at today's news conference in Ann Arbor
Credit Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio
The connected vehicle systems package will take up some space in the vehicles taking part in the study.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is in Michigan today touting a major advance in Smart Car technology.

By October, three thousand cars, trucks and buses outfitted with a special Wi-Fi system will travel around Ann Arbor as part of a one year test of the system.

A few hundred are already on the road.

LaHood says the Smart Car system allows vehicles to “talk” to each other and hopefully avoid accidents.

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