Intra-car video streaming

Oki Electric has developed a system that will stream MPEG4 video from a moving car at 30 frames per second to any vehicle within several hundred metres. Rather than systems like NEC's, which uses roadside base stations to enable access from the car to a central server, Oki's system uses DSRC, the short-range communication protocol used at electronic motorway toll gates, to enable intercar communication. They envisage it being used to relay images of accidents or traffic jams, or to communicate with friends in nearby vehicles on a road trip, for example.

On the face of it, this doesn't sound all that useful (compared to, say, having the accident-detection system in a car pass information to vehicles behind it), but we'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now.

[Via CNET Japan (Japanese)]