LEXUS RX Talks to Trams and Traffic Lights in Mebourne

Lexus has become the first Australian  car maker to test the Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem (AIMES). This is a system that integrates systems and brings together 50 partners led by University of Melbourne.

The  Co-operative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) technology uses 2 Lexus RX 450h SUVs with specially fitted Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) and cellular network technologies. They’ll be travelling around a part of Carlton that has been prepared for the study. The area is a six-square-kilometre area including Carlton, Fitzroy and Collingwood, bordered by Victoria Parade, Hoddle Street, Alexandra Parade and Lygon Street.

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The system uses in-car technology mated to a smart network including sensors connecting public transport, pedestrians and cyclists, intersections, and streets into a fully integrated ecosystem.

The Lexus RX 450h’s will be able to talk to traffic lights, emergency vehicles, and trams in order to warn drivers of possible difficulties. Such technology may be used to warn drivers accidentally turning into the path of an oncoming tram for example.

Lexus Australia Chief Executive, Scott Thompson, said the luxury lifestyle brand is committed to investment in a wide ecosystem of new technologies to achieve higher vehicle safety standards.

“Imaginative technology and leveraging innovation are core to the Lexus DNA, and we are committed to delivering next-generation road safety outcomes,” Mr Thompson said.

“Lexus would like to thank the Victorian and Queensland Government, and the University of Melbourne, for their partnership in developing important road safety research.”

Lexus worked in the Advanced Connected Vehicles for Victoria project, as well as the Queensland Automated Vehicle Initiative (CAVI) in Ipswich.

Such programmes allowed Lexus to develop technologies that warn drivers of red lights, pedestrians about to cross the road at traffic lights, or alert drivers to the presence of slow or stopped vehicles, road works or road hazards such as water or debris. These are situations that will continue to be tested in this trial.

 

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