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AUDI IS BRINGING a service which will tell drivers how long they will have to wait at a traffic light before it turns green.
The first cars with this feature, which will arrive in the US this autumn, will be able to view real-time information from a city’s traffic management system.
As such a system requires information from traffic control in each city and must be done securely, the feature will only be available to a few cities to start.
While a driver is waiting at a connected traffic light, both the driver information screen and heads-up display will tell them the time remaining.
Reuters say the countdown would disappear a few seconds before the light turns green so the driver could pay attention to the road.
The system is something Audi is calling vehicle-to-infrastrucutre technology, using sensors and other data from its surroundings to help make journeys more convenient.
Future applications of the tech could see it integrated into other features like vehicle navigation, start/stop functionality and help improve traffic flow in cities.
“These improvements could lead to better overall efficiency and shorter commuting times,” said Pom Malhotra, the general manager of Audio’s connected vehicles division.
Communication between vehicles and infrastructure is one part of the puzzle which will help bring self-driving cars on roads. By communicating with their physical surroundings, be it traffic lights and other sensors, such cars will know where to stop, start and what speed it should maintain.
What abut their own website? Can’t see any cookies notification there either…
As far as I can see they only use 2 session cookies both of which are non-intrusive and expire at the end of the session. So they don’t need to display any alert.
Have they cookies?
They do! Every website needs to display this message, weather they have one or more cookies.
No, Jeroen, they don’t. See paragraph 5 of regulation 5 of SI 336 of 2011.
Thejournal.ie is on that list. say it ain’t so guys.
Never fear. The Data Protection Commissioner says: “The 80 websites in question were chosen at random as a representative sample of sites. Receipt of a letter does not indicate that a site has not achieved compliance with the law”.
Phew.
A word document? Really?
Well the Journal wrote an article about the Instagram storm in a teacup and yet has ignored this cookie privacy directive that has been around since mid-year. The article seems to be indicate that non-compliance is a bit of a laugh. The site also uses Google Analytics and there’s no specific reference to this in the Privacy Policy (there’s supposed to be a standard term as part of the agreement to use Google Analytics)
Perhaps the author of this article might like to ask the Journal management for a statement as to why they did not implement the requirements in July. Especially as it was well flagged.
Never got a cookie on Journl.ie
Brian – Just for the sake of clarification, our Cookies Policy (which is linked at the bottom of each page on the desktop and mobile sites) lists the full range of cookies used by the site or its various components.
Google Analytics is at the top of this list. http://www.thejournal.ie/cookies-policy/
Thank you for point ing this out. I was looking at the Privacy Policy. I don’t think I’ve seen a cookie policy as detailed as your own.
So with this level of transparency, why avoid the regulations?
I am assuming the journal will be replying in the affirmative to this letter. Cookies leave a bad taste in my mouth :(
How ironic that all these sites ask us for permission to accept cookies – and then they don’t use said cookies to remember our choice last time around… Oh the ironing
I have been implementing quit a lot of these scripts and the funny thing is that some offer a tickbox so you won’t be bothered again, with the result that….. a cookie is placed on your computer :-)
Yeah, it really shows the grasp some folk have on technology doesn’t it. Such a pointless law….
The Cookie Monster must of been working over time setting these rules,
lol a third of the sites are owned by the state…. Have to laugh at that!
What’s with the chocolate chip cookies in the picture!! Was the reporter on his 10 minute break, or is this story ironical!!
Unfortunately unlike the UK, there hasn’t been much guidance from the Data Protection Commissioner. A search on their website for cookie guidelines brings back nothing of interest
Om nom nom!
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