Cooperative Collision Warning System

The UC Berkeley-based California Partner for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) has built a WiFi/GPS-based system for cars based that tracks and displays the vehicle’s location and those around it. The automobiles are constantly forming ad hoc wireless networks as they pass one another and exchange information about their physical place on the road.

One of the concern is the inherent system failures and limitations

Still, the researchers have a long road ahead before the cooperative collision warning system is ready for commercialization. For example, data transmission protocols and error correction algorithms must be improved so that occasional missed bits of data, a given due to the speed and volume of cars on a freeway, don’t result in hazardous system errors.

Relation to my thesis: An example of a proximity-based system which tries to reduce a driver’s workload but leaves some problems of hazardous system errors. How can these errors can be dealt with on the system and user level?