NHTSA Starts Work on Car-to-Car Communications Proposal
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants cars of the future to communicate with each other in the hopes of reducing accidents, the agency said Feb. 3.
NHTSA said it is starting work on a vehicle-to-vehicle proposal that would use dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) for cars and light trucks to communicate with each other in multiple transmissions per second.
As examples, NHTSA said the systems would be useful when a driver needs to decide if it is safe to pass on a two-lane road or make a left turn across the path of oncoming traffic, or in which a vehicle approaches an intersection.
Bloomberg News said Cisco Systems and Google Inc. have expressed interest in the technologies.
NHTSA also has studied similar systems for trucks wherein heavy-duty vehicles communicate with each other or with on-highway structures.
