Ford ABICAS

Ford issued a press release earlier this month to let us know that they're also working on cooperative safety systems:

"TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 2, 2010 – Ford Motor Company’s researchers are developing advanced crash avoidance systems that use wireless and GPS technologies to help vehicles communicate with each other in traffic and help drivers avoid or mitigate accidents.

Ford’s Automatic Braking Intersection Collision Avoidance System (ABICAS), which is under development, uses radio-based wireless sensors, GPS and navigation information to detect the relative location of other radio-equipped test vehicles. The system is being designed to warn drivers of imminent side-impact collisions and automatically activate the brakes if necessary to avoid or minimize the damage caused by such collisions."

Apparently this comes out of the "Smart Intersection" project in the video below.