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alright guys brian Tong here outside of the CES convention hall we're here at the kind of gold parking lot this is outside the north on we're going to show you here we're here at Ford's vehicle to vehicle detection system they're going to show a demo off and we're just going to show you two things that makes us really cool this is kind of the future coming to your cars but the first thing that we want to talk about is a reveal right you have these cars a situation for example where you have three cars driving down in a line now what happens is we have a lead car down in the back and you'll see it coming up a lot of times if you have three cars in row and you're that far back card you don't know that there's actually one more car in front of you all of a sudden car number two peels out reveals that car and then your car stops now what happens in this detection system is that there's an array of LED lights that warn you there's an audible sound and also when cars are near you there's a vibration system in the seats to let you know whether cars on your left side or your right side so this is just one of those cool examples here that they're showcasing off the technology now Ford is working on this in partnership with eight other OEM so this is not just specific to fort it's their driver assistance system and so we're going to want to do now is kind of show you we're going to jump in the car maybe kind of explain this a little more when we get inside but let's just kind of go this way guys this is cool stuff before we hop in I just want to point out one thing about this technology up here you see the shark fin here now this is a transmitter that transmits 10 times per second instead it includes Wi-Fi and GPS data and what this does is these this system talks to other cars again it's not manufactured specific it is still being it's still in the works this is not a prototype though this is getting pushed forward and it all it takes is for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to push this through as a standard but this is this again this is not anything beta or a hacked up project this is going and moving forward and this is really the future of cars across multiple manufacturers so what we're gonna do now is jump in this car and show you one other demo to show you how this all works ok so give us up we're gonna I'm going to jump in the front Charlene Sarah's gonna jump in the back so just bear what's for a second we're gonna load up ok guys look I'm right look I can see you guys still okay now i will do the talking here Nick our driver he's going to be you know he's here he needs to pay attention to the road obviously so we're going to check this out this is um I guess this is a demo where if you're driving at an intersection and you're going to be at a stoplight you may not see oncoming traffic so we're going to do is we're here inside the car you might be able to use a light sign on our left side what happens is we can't see anything on our right side because we're being pretty much covered by a Penske moving truck so we're gonna go give it a second for this demo don't go on and then you'll see how this all comes together all right green means go ok so here we go let's see what this looks like I should buckle up to haha safety first guys all right whoo there's some speed oh okay now you guys just saw that you heard the audible noise I actually felt that Rumble in my chair that's indicating the driver to stop as well as a LED array lights up to let you know that you need to slow down so again this is Ford's demo of their vehicle to vehicle system you know detection system warning system for drivers and again just one of the cool demos you guys can check out here at CES these are going to be coming down the road there's no set date right now again this has to be approved to push through but this is a standard that's coming a car soon and we will check you guys out more of a CES 2014