If this is Vehicle-to-Vehicle only, then this isn’t so bad. Essentially the cars within 300 feet of you all talking with each other and keeping track of speed and direction.
Big step up in safety.
But this does NOT need to transmit to a government server anywhere.
The little box strapped to the next road sign about shoulder height is the perfect innocuous location for the small receiver and interface into the network that already has been built to support roadside information signs and traffic monitoring video.
As an example of network load, the heaviest traffic count at any single location in Missouri is at the Blanchette Memorial Bridge where I-70 crosses the Missouri River west of St. Louis. In 2008 the daily traffic count was about 150,000 vehicles a day.
If all vehicles were able to be monitored so their unique IDs could be captured along with a time stamp, 150k packets of info per day is nothing for a computer network that is already provisioned to carry video feeds.
The little box strapped to the next road sign about shoulder height is the perfect innocuous location for the small receiver and interface into the network that already has been built to support roadside information signs and traffic monitoring video.
As an example of network load, the heaviest traffic count at any single location in Missouri is at the Blanchette Memorial Bridge where I-70 crosses the Missouri River west of St. Louis. In 2008 the daily traffic count was about 150,000 vehicles a day.
If all vehicles were able to be monitored so their unique IDs could be captured along with a time stamp, 150k packets of info per day is nothing for a computer network that is already provisioned to carry video feeds.