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Both the US Department of Transportation – DOT – as well as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – NHTSA – have announced a new push to enable future cars with vehicle-to-vehicle – V2V – communication technology.

V2V communication is touted to be the next generation in automotive safety, following the advent of seatbelts, airbags and electronic stability control system. The technology allows cars to basically ‘talk’ to each other by exchanging infromation related to their speed and position.

The technology is meant to reduce or even eliminate a significant number of ‘common crash types’ – such as rear-end, lane change and intersection collisions – involving two or more vehicles, with the DOT and NHTSA plan meaning to initially encompass light vehicles.

According to the governmental bodies the implementation of such a technology system is considered to be ‘fluid’ – which means they don’t really have any sort of real plan – but they did mention that the technologies that they are focusing on are meant to provide drivers with warning so that they can then avoid imminent collisions, as ooposed to automatically applying the brake.

According to US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx, the V2V technology has the potential to help drivers avoid anywhere between seventy to eighty percent of crashes that involve unimpaired drivers, so that is absolutely massive.

A year-long research pilot program of V2V safety applications has been the basis for analysing both the real-world as well as controlled test conditions by the DOT; this announcement is thought to ‘significantly’ encourage the market to further develop these technologies.

The technology definitely has the potential of saving thousands of lives not to mention the millions in repairs and damages, but it must be developed in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission – FCC – which is consideing to open a related frequency to unlicensed Wi-Fi devices.

The problem is that opening up the 5.9 Ghz frequency band to other wireless users might cause interference and thus affect the integrity of V2V safety communications, which in turn might prove to be counter-productive.

The NHTSA research report on V2V communication technology will be publised soon and left up for public comment.

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