Comment Re:Better you look the road (Score 1) 180
Check out the DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) standard. Also labeled WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) and 802.11p with IEEE 1609. Basically a vehicle status message is transmitted multiple times a second and vehicles within a few hundred meters can receive these transmissions and act on that info. So when someone tries to turn left in front of a motorcycle that is transmitting it's vehicle status (location, velocity, size) the corresponding receiver on the vehicle will compute the collision course and put out a big warning to the vehicle. Once the system gets reliable and secure enough perhaps the vehicle will even do things like put on the brakes or prevent someone from running a deep red light.
The National Highway Transportation Administration is expected to decide any day now if it will be required in vehicles starting in a few years. Also systems are starting to crop up that are small, perhaps even integrated directly into smartphones someday.