BitTorrent

As you may have already guessed CarTorrent will be a peer-to-peer network like BitTorrent, with the peers being cars. Mario Gerla and Giovanni Pau of UCLA Engineering's Network Research Lab team came up with the idea in 2004 when peer-to-peer networks first became popular. They wanted civilian applications for the technology and thought the car would be a good starting point. The idea of CarTorrent is to have a network of cars continuously relaying information to each other and to wireless internet access points.

The shared information would come in three categories: content distribution (local information such as upcoming attractions, advertisements, etc.), safety/navigation (road conditions, accident and traffic