The C3World Vision In the future, cars will be ever more intricately networked with the flows of data that surround us. Vehicles will communicate with each other to provide drivers and passengers with information that is relevant to safety and which enhances comfort and convenience. This could be a hazard warning about a broken-down vehicle on the planned route, but it could also be navigation instructions to the nearest vacant car park, the current calendar of events in the city you are driving to, or a list of music tracks copied onto the portable MP3 player the day before. The basis for this is the robust and secure wireless transmission of information within the vehicle and between the vehicle and its environment.
The C3World Research Group "C3World - Connected Cars in a Connected World" is a research group created by Volkswagen and three Lower Saxonian research institutes in Braunschweig, Hannover and Oldenburg. It is studying the challenges of vehicular information and communication technology and working on the technological preconditions that will make the vision of the connected car possible.
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