Fausto’s Status Update [02-20-2021]

This week, my teammates and I worked on consolidating our ideas and goals for our project by narrowing down various different design options. After researching different forms of communication, we decided the best choice for communicating between RC cars was Bluetooth. Bluetooth works well for our purposes because it has good range, can be used for ad hoc networking and is simpler than some of the other options we were looking at (wifi). We are still deciding how much communication we want our cars to do and are exploring the idea of cars communicating at intersections for faster transportation (which car slows down, which one speeds up).  Next week, we want to finalize the hardware components we will be using for our RC cars and more clearly define communication guidelines.