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@imgeohot - Before launch, you should look into a communications protocol between the vehicles. It appears to me that the new LiFi standard might be perfect. Yo
by deftnerd 11y ago
@imgeohot - Before launch, you should look into a communications protocol between the vehicles. It appears to me that the new LiFi standard might be perfect. You might be able to use the laser range finders themselves to communicate between vehicles.
What to communicate? I'm not sure, to be honest. Road conditions or notifications of the position of obstacles is one obvious thing. Advertising the current version of the software and pushing signed OS upgrade binaries is another. Voice/Video chat with other vehicles in range would be cool, as is media syncing and discovery.
Building in some kind of Bitcoin based payment protocol would be fun too. You could load your cars Bitcoin wallet with some funds and tip cars around you all over the LiFi.
I'm not saying you need to build all that stuff, just put in a good hackable messaging protocol into the system before wide release :-)
Great work man. Good to see people with a good hacker ethos accomplish really cool things.
- sp332 11y agoThe cars could signal a turn ahead of time, or indicate how hard they're about to brake. With a large enough network, they could even predict traffic patterns and choose a different route.