Wide Angle: Smart Highways

March 23, 2009

Intelligent highways equipped with wireless technology, fiber optics, sensors, cameras, GPS, electronic signs and robotic car have the potential to decrease traffic congestion, increase highway safety and reduce the environmental impact caused by traffic jams. We take a wide angle view on what those future roads may look like, here on Earth and even in the skies.

• Video: Down Future Roads, Everyone's Talking
  Traffic expert Rick Dye weighs in on the future of driving, where cars talk to other cars, your GPS lets you know there's an accident ahead and movies are beamed to your dashboard.

• Video: Is It Future Yet? Robot Cars
  Why drive when robots can do it for you? Researchers at Virginia Tech take Jorge Ribas on a ride into the future of your commute.

• Top 10: Parts of a Smart Highway
  Intelligent highways equipped with wireless technology, fiber optics, sensors, cameras, GPS, electronic signs and robotic car have the potential to decrease traffic congestion, increase highway safety and reduce the environmental impact caused by traffic jams.

• Puzzle: Highways to the Future
  Even without advanced technology and robotic cars, modern-day highways are impressive networks. We feature a few here in puzzles you can solve.

• Video: Flying Car Takes Off
  A new flying car has made its first successful trip down the runway.

• Blog: Transition from Street to Sky
  Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich explains how his fuel-efficient, street legal plane, "Transition," could reduce aviation emissions, take advantage of under-utilized public airports and fill awkward transportation gaps.

• Slideshow: Preparing for Flight
  Terrafugia's Transition is part car, part airplane. Here the pilot prepares for the vehicle's first flight. The two-seater airplane is designed to travel both in the air and on the road. See the slide show.

• News: Smart-Braking Car Saves Gas
  Drivers willing to turn braking and acceleration over to a computer could save nearly 25 percent on their annual gas bills, say the British developers of an advanced new cruise control system.

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