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Honda will use its cars to collect data about hazardous road conditions. The Japanese automaker is gathering real-time road information using gps and cameras, which it can send to the municipalities for future improvements.
The Honda Research Institute is running a pilot project that uses connected vehicle technology to capture accurate data on road conditions. Honda is working with the Ohio Department of Transportation to provide road condition data in early 2022.
Maintaining good road conditions helps keep everyone sharing the road safe, according to a scientist at Honda Research Institute USA. Connected vehicles have the potential to improve the process of identifying, reporting, and more quickly repairing hazardous road conditions.
Good road conditions help keep everyone safe.
The lane lines will be visually classified by Honda using four color codes. The green and yellow classifications are ideal for good lane marking conditions, while gray and red indicate that the lane markings need to be repaired.
Honda will collect a number of data points, including latitude and longitude coordinates, along with relevant images and video clips, which it will anonymize and stream to a secure platform for analysis. Road operators will have access to the platform to identify the location, type, and severity of the road condition and hazard information.
Honda's pilot could be considered a more targeted version of connected vehicle technology that has been promised for many years but has failed to emerge. For years, the auto industry has promised vehicle-to-everything technology to increase road safety by allowing vehicles to communicate with one another, as well as smart infrastructure like traffic signals, to better avoid crashes.
The wide deployment of the technology could help speed the adoption of self-driving cars, which could use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications to bolster their ability to "see" their environment and make better driving. The FCC decided to take away the current airwaves dedicated to that technology.
The auto industry was slow to develop V2X technology. V2V equipment was installed in both the E-Class and S-Class. V2V was introduced in the Cadillac CTS. The newer technology called cellular V2X (C-V2X) is being looked at by other manufacturers.
