New Audis can now talk to traffic lights

Audi has announced that select 2017 Audi A4, Q7 and allroad models (built after June 2016) will be able to communicate with Wi-Fi-enabled traffic lights that can inform drivers when red lights will turn green.

Traffic Light Information, an Audi connect PRIME feature, was first announced in August; the automaker demonstrated the technology at a Las Vegas launch event this week.

Audi's "time-to-green" traffic light feature is the first feature to leverage the Audi Traffic Light Information service, which is the first step in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) electronic communications for the automaker.

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