<STRONG>VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating the 5G-Safe project, which aims to reduce traffic accidents through the use of 5G cellular communications-equipped ‘connected cars’.</STRONG> <P>The multi-participant project involves the development of new vehicular network systems, and the local road weather and safety services that they enable, to help support drivers, road operators, and autonomous vehicle management systems. The new services will require no action from motorists while driving, as data will be gathered and warnings will be sent to users automatically. The prevailing local weather and road conditions, together with warnings and other useful information, are automatically identified, based on data collected from vehicles, and then sent in real time to the end-users. The new network and cloud computing technologies being researched under the project will reduce delays in data exchange and be more scalable than current services.</P> <P>The 5G-Safe project is part of the ‘Challenge Finland’ competition, being run by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. As well as automatically generated local weather and road condition information, real-time video and radar data will also be exchanged between passing vehicles. Other issues being investigated include the use of data on local road weather conditions to improve the situational awareness of autonomous vehicles, and the enhancement of autonomous operation in harsh weather.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>**원문보기: <A href=&quot;http://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news.php?NewsID=85027&quot; target=_blank>http://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news.php?NewsID=85027</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><IMG alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://cms.ukintpress.com/UserFiles/3_%20Finland%205G-Safe%20schematic.jpg&quot; width=525 align=left height=328></P>