Cars to create mobile network

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After the internet for people, the next big thing has always been said to be the "Internet of things", like a fridge automatically alerting you when the milk is about to run out.

Now a number of car companies are working on a sort of "Internet of cars". Ford, for example, is supplying 20 S-Max models to a four-year German study of car-to-car communication, to develop features such as networked emergency braking. In this scenario, if a car goes around a corner and the driver has to brake hard, perhaps because there is a parked car, a message will automatically be sent to following cars, which will be primed to brake. Similarly, a car encountering an obstacle will automatically warn the car behind.

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