Japanese researchers from academic and business circles are joining forces on a government-sponsored project to develop an "Internet car," project planners said Monday.
It is hoped that the car will be capable of sending information on traffic and weather conditions relating to the area in which it is traveling, the planners said.
They said the project, which is to be launched by Keio University in fiscal 2001, marks the first experiment in applying Internet Protocol version 6, a next-generation Internet technology, to vehicles.