Don't want to get run over by a Ford car? There's a Bluetooth app for that
In the paper, researchers found that various BLE beacon positioning systems displayed similar test results, with average location accuracies falling to within 0.79 meters and 2.28 meters. At 10 meters, location accuracy gets as bad as only locating the BLE beacon to within 7.81 meters - that's not a lot of stoppng distance.
Per UK insurance company RAC, a vehicle traveling 20 MPH requires 14 meters of braking distance, which means Ford's plan to rely on BLE for locating unnoticed pedestrians might not be the best technological choice. Ford says that SYNC-enabled vehicles are already equipped with the hardware needed to introduce the technology, so upgrades won't be necessary. Jim Buczkowski, Ford's executive director for Research and Advanced Engineering, said that the new BLE technology will work in tandem with Ford's existing Co-Pilot360 driver assist technology, which detects pedestrians, cyclists and other hazards and can brake the vehicle if necessary.
"We are now exploring ways to expand vehicle sensing capability, for areas drivers cannot see, to help people drive even more confidently on roads increasingly shared by others using their two feet or two wheels." Ford has a number of partners on the project, including The Ohio State University and T-Mobile, the latter of which is working with Ford to build a 5G-based system that functions similarly to the BLE hidden pedestrian alert system.
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