Ford Smart Brakes Lights Up Dashboard Of Car Behind

We've just seen an interesting article about the 'smart brake' technology developed by Ford.  What this technology does is light up the dashboard of the car behind when the vehicle in front brakes.  We cannot find any information about how this actually works and both cars would need to be on the same system.  Maybe its only going to work with Fords?

But its a clever idea and something that could be easily rolled out.  Older cars could have a wireless light on the dashboard connected to the cigarette lighter.  But we have doubt about how this would work on the motorway, surely someone around you would be braking all the time and the dashboard would light up all the time, how would it work out which car was the one in front.  Perhaps you would only turn it on in thick fog or on bendy country lanes.

Connecting car analytics together is surely the way forward as they can sense when the cars infront are braking hard before you can see why.  Also with Google's driverless car it makes sense to link cars up more to share information.  Road would become a lot more efficient and you could relax whilst driving.  Unless of course your car computer got a virus, eeek.

Here is the article that caught our eye - 

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2013-07/fords-new-brake-light-system-warns-you-when-car-front-you-stops

There is also a competitor to Google - Mobileye trying to beat Google to the post

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/07/racing-google-to-bring-affordable-driverless-cars-to-the-road-mobileye-valued-at-1-5b-as-investors-take-400m-stake/

They must have deep pockets and some decent funding to join that race!

Whilst we wait please consider GSF for your Ford Parts for your cars that still require a human being to get about.