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"I was involved in a cloning project. .. to send me into outer space along with a lot of other people. Not the whole me - just a hair from my head, while I still had some. I would thus pop up in another galaxy in the distant future."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Inter-Vehicle Communication  
  The ability to talk car-to-car directly.  

As the cab hummed above downtown New York another cab rose and zipped ahead of it, wig-wagging its side fins in a rocking motion.

"They are trying to contact us," the autonomic circuit of his own cab informed him. "Do you wish to respond?"

"Let me talk to them," Barney said.

A mike was presented to him.

Technovelgy from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Doubleday in 1965
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There have been a variety of different real-life approaches to creating something like this. Some involve visual feedback (check out the funky Drivemocion; others make use of short-range WiFi or other networking technology.

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