RESTAN: A Ubiquitous Device that Transforms the Use of Cars and Roads

RESTAN combines many key functions foreseen by professionals into one ubiquitous device.  It uses DSRC to eliminate approximately 40% of all collisions and traffic casualties.  As a side effect of keeping vehicles off collision courses, it will significantly improve city MPG. The device will also integrate navigation with smart tolling and on-demand ridesharing.  These shall be used to sharply reduce congestion induced traffic delays.   RESTAN will also incorporate a forward facing camera used to provide lane departure warnings, the cause of 20% of all crashes. This submission also specifies that HOV lanes be changed to HOV Priority (HOV-P) lanes where high occupancy vehicles may not be blocked.  HOV-P lanes will also be marked off on larger surface arterials.  TRES equipped vehicles will identify themselves with a forward facing blue light.  The TRES camera may send pictures of blocking vehicles to law enforcement.  Finally, this submission suggests creating a series of engineering competitions to identify, and possibly place into the public domain, a suitable computing platform, applications and especially their interfaces.