An Unexpected New World
The real benefits of computational technology incorporating vehicles into the information grid are too numerous for a single paper, even if that paper were 20k+ words. You would need a book to cover all associated advantages. Here, we’ll cover some of the most visible realities that make connected vehicle technology eminently desirable.
1. Better and More Accurate Navigation
Internet of Things (IoT) technology utilizes cloud computing infrastructure, smartphones incorporating 4G and 5G networks, and increasingly miniaturized WiFi solutions to make any device that runs on electricity something that can be controlled through the internet. That extends to cars, and we’re already seeing as much via GPS tech.
Many new vehicles come with onboard computers that help you navigate. The more connected vehicles are, the more accurate and reliable such directions are. Smartphones help optimize cars this way, but you can also reconfigure the vehicle from the inside out using computer tech if that suits you.
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2. Vehicular Infrastructural Maintenance
In fleets, IoT tech is already being used to monitor vehicular components and maximize their safe utility over the long haul. As technology continues to redefine car design, such tech will be a natural consequence of the upgrade, allowing you to get every single mile you can out of every component in your vehicle; from the tires to the water pump.
3. Safety of Drivers and Communities: Missing Vehicles
Automated cars still have bugs, but IoT-enabled tech makes it so cars act as vehicular cartographers. Each car blazes a trail that’s uploaded to the web in real-time, showing where every road in the world goes. Missing vehicles will soon be a thing of the past. Altogether these things help drivers be safe by avoiding bad routes.
Also, such tech makes it possible to keep an eye on traffic patterns. Algorithms in the near future may be able to prevent accidents from happening by taking over vehicular computers and putting the literal brakes on a wreck. Again, there are still bugs right now, but they’re getting worked out, and soon such innovations will be perfectly viable.
4. Neural Net Expansion and Increased Vehicular Automation
As vehicles become increasingly computerized, this will produce data from multiple points that facilitate more reliable automation. Tesla is making some strides, but millions of vehicles combining data into a tangible neural network will facilitate even more notable gains in this area. Eventually, true automation will be possible.
We’re on the road in that direction now. Basically, imagine each individual vehicle as a neuron in a human brain. Millions of them make one brain. Each web-enabled car out there is another “brick in the wall”, as it were; another neuron in the network. Eventually, an event horizon is overcome wherein the “brain” made up of cars can be put to use.
5. Reduced Vehicular Operational Costs Over Time
More data means less waste, leading to greater overall affordability without qualitative loss. Inflation may continue, but the actual expense of cars should decrease as value expands with tech innovation in the near future.
Connected Vehicles Are Here, and Getting Better
So we’re not quite in that idyllic world imagined in The Jetsons. Our cars don’t fly. But the reduced vehicular cost, neural net expansion, safer drivers and communities, fewer missing cars, better vehicular maintenance, and more accurate navigation represent just a few of the distinct advantages that are developing from connected vehicle technology.
