Something else could be coming soon to a vehicle near you: more technology, the kind that could help your car talk to others around it.Unlike some proposed cars of the future, it would not actually do the driving for you. But it could warn you about what other drivers are doing. The U.S. government may require this feature in the future, but it would add to the cost of the car. Vehicles of the future could be cars that talk to the driver and each other. The U.S. government wants them on the road soon, pushing for technology that would warn drivers of danger coming from any direction. It.s called vehicle-to-vehicle technology. Cars would send wireless messages to each other within about 300 yards, communicating information like speed, direction and GPS position ten times per second. When cars share this information, they can account for all the vehicles around them, which means they are able to identify possible crashes. The technology sees around corners, over hills and through other vehicles. For example, my car will tell me that there are five cars just ahead of me, and I can slow down beforehand while the vehicle ahead sends my car a message giving me enough time to react. 33,000 Americans are killed and 2.3 million injured in car crashes every year. The Department of Transportation (DoT) predicts, talking cars could prevent up to 80 percent of crashes involving sober drivers. Five major car companies have been working with DoT on developing and testing the technology. 3,000 cars are already using it as part of a government pilot test. Sometime after 2016, the U.S. government hopes your car will be able to communicate with you. While DoT hopes to make this technology the rule by 2016, it will still need the public to weigh in before anything is finalized. Now, as for privacy, the government says that data sent between cars doesn.t record personal information, so your privacy should not be compromised.
1-1、According to the text, the future vehicles can let the drivers see the area behind the car.
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