Posted on 10/15/2017 12:14:08 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Florida Turnpike broke ground earlier this month on a new test track where it will experiment with high-speed toll technology as well as systems for vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, according to FleetOwner.
The 400-acre SunTrax site, in Auburndale, FL, will test toll equipment and interoperable tolling systems, as well as smartphone-based payment methods. Other technologies to be tested include high-speed connected platooning trucks, moveable barrier systems and machine vision and materials testing for new pavement types, lane markings and signage.
Construction on the site's oval track is expected to be complete in spring 2019 with the first phase of an autonomous vehicle test bed opening at that time or shortly thereafter.
The nation's roads — and the vehicles on them — are getting smarter as states and municipalities look for ways to gather data from infrastructure. In Georgia, officials are testing smart-highway and vehicle technology, including upgrading a 16-mile stretch of Interstate 85 with road sensors, solar pavement and electronic and autonomous vehicle technologies. The state's Department of Transportation and its partners say they will use those features to test solutions for creating a "zero-carbon, zero-death, zero-waste, zero-impact" roadway.
Meanwhile, the first phase of a connected and automated vehicle (CAV) testing facility, the nonprofit American Center for Mobility at Willow Run, is set to be constructed near Detroit. The site will be used for developing, testing and validating CAV technologies. It is one of 10 U.S. sites designated by the U.S. Department of Transportation as official testing ground for such technologies.
Rhode Island recently issued a request for information for CAV companies to share details about potential partnerships, safety and security initiatives, weather conditions and training. Ohio, too, is looking at smart roads. The state is outfitting a 35-mile segment of Interstate 33 with sensors to gather traffic and weather data, as well as autonomous vehicle technology. The goal is to provide more up-to-date reporting on road conditions.
As research around CAV technology builds, more states are likely to invest in it. However, without a clear federal mandate on autonomous vehicles (though the topic is being considered) and with efforts among private entities to progress the technology independently, states are left to set their own guidelines on how to regulate and invest in CAV.
The National League of Cities issued a guide earlier this year for state and local leaders. In it, the nonprofit encourages them to begin planning infrastructure around CAV technology now so they will be prepared for when the technology is ready for broader adoption.
>> “zero-carbon, zero-death, zero-waste, zero-impact”
Zero-chance.
vehicle to infrastructure = Texting while Driving
vehicle to vehicle = Traffic Accident
Those technologies have existed for awhile already.
Hell, I could have done this at Homestead with my iPhone. Send me a million, and I’ll send video!
The first thing the turnpike needs is another lane in both the north and the south lanes.I sat in traffic for hours trying to evacuate from Irma. We need to do first things first.
Unless there is effective opposition, at least in Blue State America, routine car use will likely be made to pay not only for much of the cost of roads, but also for public transportation, with discriminatory pricing for the sake of poor relief, racial equity, and tax and redistribution schemes. It may be that many of us will one day reminisce about driving ourselves in cars that we owned on roads that were almost entirely free of tolls and use charges.
Isn’t Aurbundale off I-4 and in Polk county not the Turnpike
Not to mention,they could just shut off your car if they didn’t like you.
Gov. Scott suspended all tolls prior to the hurricane and for about a week afterward. It lasted about 2 work weeks.
Tolls were waved,problems are we don’t have a good enough road structure for moving citizens north to south or vice versa.We have outgrown it all.
“The Florida Turnpike broke ground earlier this month on a new test track where it will experiment with high-speed toll technology as well as systems for vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, according to FleetOwner.”
I repeat what many shills for “driverless cars” keep denying was ALWAYS a part of the genesis of ideas surrounding them - every vehicle “connected” to a system that interconnects to every traffic system in the country (promoted as necessary for the totality of a fully functioning total “driverless car” environement) and in one place, that data can show - whoever is interested - where exactly you are if you are with your car, anywhere in the country in real time. That is the dream of the arrogant technologists represented by the likes of Google et al.
“It definitely appears the infrastructure is inadequate.”
Same is true for New York, Los Angeles and most US cities. It’s Trumps fault.
The design feature that seems to have been given the greatest thought was how to suck money from you as you pass designated electronic wallet sucking stations.
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