Intel Labs developing 'talking' tail lights for safer roads | Engadget at Research @ Intel

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Subscribe to Engadget today: http://bit.ly/YA7pDT Watch new Engadget videos here: http://goo.gl/ZYWTn **** More Below **** Smarter headlights could guide you out of a rainstorm, but intelligent tail lights could enable communication between vehicles. At least, that's the idea behind a collaborative Connected Vehicle Safety project between Intel and National Taiwan University. Its purpose is so that you'll be able to know just what the vehicles around you are up to -- whether they're speeding or braking or making a left -- by receiving data from their tail lights. Your vehicle could then stop or accelerate automatically without you needing to intervene, or you could choose to react manually if desired. We saw a demonstration of the concept at a Research @ Intel event in San Francisco with a couple of scooters, so head on past the break to learn how it all works, with video to boot. Read on at Engadget: http://goo.gl/InxIk Engadget provides the web's best consumer electronics & gadgets coverage. Launched in 2004 by former Gizmodo editor and co-founder Peter Rojas, Engadget now covers the latest mobile devices, computers, TVs, laptops, personal electronics, hardware, tablets, and cameras. Engadget's video property is a part of the AOL On Network. Get More Engadget: Read: http://engt.co/YZHYeP Like: http://on.fb.me/YZI4mL Follow: http://bit.ly/YFfj0

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