> if cars could actually communicate with each other, rather than have to rely on their own cameras, to determine another vehicles position. This is being tes

> if cars could actually communicate with each other, rather than have to rely on their own cameras, to determine another vehicles position. This is being tested right now eg. 802.11p/ITS-G5/Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything A video of some demonstrations by Ford Motors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF1a-g9suR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF1a-g9suR8 Tesla might already have the hardware needed; this implementation for Linux uses Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx chipset devices operating in the 5.9 GHz band https://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/publications/public/ieee80211p_linux_2014_final_report.pdf https://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/publications/public/ieee80211p_li... (https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/002/860/original/Vehicle2Vehicle.pdf https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/system/event_at... outlines the current security model - car manufacturers are a small set of organisations that could act as intermediary Certificate Authorities and manage key exchange so messages via these protocols can be "trusted")