Sick of Car Jams? Let Crypto Car Payments Ease Your Route

Well, the traffic on our roads just seems to increase every day. Don’t you just wish that you had a magic payment system that would open up the traffic for you?

For you, you have an important meeting to attend, but others around you are just out to do their shopping. Well, Ford may have come to your rescue with a recently published patent for a cryptocurrency method which allows cars to intercommunicate and accept payments for cars to have priority [here]:

With the Cooperatively Managed Merge and Pass (CMMP) system, cars in a given area could all accept payments and then decide how to move aside to allow a given car through. In this way priority could be given to certain drivers who have time constraints.

The patent talks about co-operative vehicles (the consumer vehicles) which will be able to drive a higher speeds in less-occupied traffic lanes, and which can pass freely when required. Other vehicles — known as merchant vehicles — will then allow the consumer vehicles to pass freely and will occupy the slower lanes, and then move aside for the consumer vehicles.