IBM Patent Working Toward Autonomous Vehicles
24 Avril 2019 - 6:54PM
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April 24, 2019 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- Autonomous vehicles
are seemingly an inevitable part of the near future. Major car
companies and many blockchain focused companies are developing
systems to make the concept a reality. Last year in May a group of
companies including BMW, GM, Ford, Bosch, ConsenSys Systems, IBM,
IOTA, VeChain, Shift, Hyperledger and Groupe Renault formed the
Mobile Open Blockchain Initiative to facilitate innovation in the
niche application of blockchain technology.
Even years prior to this, Ford
Motor Company was granted a patent for using a blockchain network
as a means for transactions rather than for facilitating autonomous
vehicles. However, the use-cases are still very closely related.
Rather than using better and better technologies for reading the
immediate environment physically with cameras and sensors,
blockchain technology allows vehicles to be proactive instead of
reactive. As a world leader in blockchain development, IBM
continues to prove this as a leader in patents granted using
blockchain as well.
Information Sharing Among
Mobile Apparatus
IBM’s most recent patent
“Information Sharing Among Mobile Apparatus” takes the processes
involved in creating a cryptocurrency to a more general level of
information sharing. In this way they hope it will facilitate
increased viability of autonomous cars interacting with
non-autonomous cars.One of the major issues with developing a
network of autonomous cars is not how they operate, but instead
their interaction with non-autonomous vehicles. But with this
method for connecting all vehicles to a network, it could create a
much safer environment for all vehicles.
“Connected objects can be sensed
and/or controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure,
integrating connected physical objects into computer-based systems.
Connected physical objects are uniquely identifiable through their
embedded computing system, allowing the connected physical objects
to interoperate within the existing Internet
infrastructure.”
It’s likely that these concepts
will continue to progress by integrating even more of our current
technology. Because although cars are not yet autonomous, many
people are driving while using an assisting navigation system. Such
routes could be connected to the same network as the autonomous
vehicles to help the flow of traffic. All vehicles and drives could
potentially be aware of the needs of others, and further, this
could integrate the infrastructure of traffic signals for
pedestrians as well.
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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