"Connected Vehicles" is a PowerPoint for primary and secondary students that provides an overview of what are connect vehicles, how they work, why they are needed, amongst other components associated with intelligent transportation systems. Additionally, this lesson can be paired with a "Follow the Sound" activity; instructions are found within the PowerPoint.

1. Connected Vehicles

2. What are connected vehicles?
Vehicles that communicate:
With each other
With the infrastructure (signals, roadway, etc.)
With the government
Data collection
Incident management
Environmental impacts

4. How do they work?
GPS
location and
direction
services
Wi-Fi
Radar
Cameras

5. Examples of ways vehicles stay
connected with others (traffic signals and
road use).

6. Why do we need them?
Increase safety
Increase efficiency
Lower environmental impacts of the automobile

7. Applications
Data collection for
future planning
Traffic management
Crash avoidance
Lowering of
emissions
Better operations
during severe
weather events
Toll payment

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R02SmHKy1ic

9. United States Department of Transportation
(USDOT)
Universities
Car Manufacturers
IT Companies
GPS
Communications
companies
Wi-Fi
Who is working on this?

10. Potential Issues…
Distracted Drivers
Eyes
Mind
Hands
Information overload
Lack of privacy
Data security issues

11. Check it out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iRg5530-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqF1qBNaUgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajImRDJIMRU&featu
re=related

12. ACTIVITY: FOLLOW THE SOUND
You will be working in teams of 2
One will be the instructor and the other will be the driver
(the driver will be blindfolded)
The instructor will guide her/his peer by a serious of
different sounds that indicate movement through a
maze created in the classroom
The driver will need to listen to the instructor as to what
movement she/he will need to take in order to get to the
end of the maze

13. Ms. Herrington’s classroom

14. HOW TO COMMUNICATE TO YOUR DRIVER:
go forward → “moo” noise
stop → “oink” noise
go in reverse → “meow” noise
turn left → “honk” noise
turn right → “bark” noise
speed up → fast beeps
slow down → slow beeps