Vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology has often been noted as an essential technology for self-driving cars. Not only does the technology allow vehicles to communicate with other cars to alert of potentially hazardous situations, but vehicle-to-infrastructure tech helps cars understand the road ahead.
It’s the tech that warns drivers of road conditions, traffic incidents and even when a traffic signal will turn from yellow to red. Many believe it’s an essential piece of technology in a future where cars do the driving, no humans. However, a mandate to equip every new car with V2V technology has been stalled under the Trump administration. Despite the administration revealing new self-driving car testing guidelines, V2V was overlooked, according to Bloomberg.
The Obama administration previously laid out a proposal to equip all cars with V2V tech by the year 2023. Without a government mandate, automakers see no incentive to install the necessary equipment, which costs about $350 per vehicle.
“Unless it gets mandated, nobody is going to put it on their cars,” said Glen De Vos, chief technology officer at Delphi Automotive.
General Motors rolled out V2V technology in the Cadillac CTS, though, it’s essentially useless if no other vehicles are available to communicate with. Only 2017 CTS sedans will be capable of “talking” to each other to uncover situations and potential road hazards.
Proponents for the tech argue self-driving cars need to understand every single situation they are faced with. In order to operate in the safest way possible, V2V is essential to create a grid of smart, autonomous vehicles.
With no sign of a government mandate, it’s likely the technology will be stalled for years to come. U.S. Transportation secretary Elaine Chao previously suggested state and local governments should tackle the implementation of V2I structures for V2V to really take off.
“There will be a competitive process in which those projects that have greater innovation and are more forward-looking will have a larger share of our federal dollars,” Chao said. “The technology will determine the trend.”
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Leave it to the states, we’ve got to prep Hawaii for a nuclear attack. That’s your tea party government in action.
Oh, now I know why you lost the election. Sad part is you still cant figure it out.
Scaremongering did not work in the election and isn’t going to change the fact that you lost to President Trump.
I don’t recall running for office, let alone losing. Obviously you’re the type of person that equates “winning” an election to “winning” a football game. (As if you–on top of the world–can just turn off the tele and go about your affairs, knowing all is right in the world, all happy-ever-after-like.) But that’s not the case here. And deep down, every time you cry fake news, you know what it makes you.
Trump as always is trying to dismantle anything previously under the Obama administration. This clown of a man needs to go.
Anyhow, V2V would be a wonderful tech to have since similar tech is on Mercedes currently.
But more importantly, saving potential lives is the most important part of the tech alongside reducing insurance costs, traffic jams and wrecks.
How about people actually learning to drive correctly for saving potential lives, reducing insurance costs, traffic jams and wrecks.
Your idea is great! Only trained drivers on the road. Results?
10% of the traffic remains. Mostly uber and pizza drivers. Car companies fail within weeks, the economy literally freezes.
Trump fights 2020 on an economic record so obviously wrecked that he pulls out before the first primary.
And holding the personally responsible for their actions when they do wrong.
He should dismantle everything Obummer laid his hands on since he pretty much screwed up everything…Wonder why North Korea has ICBM missles? They dont just get developed overnight.
What Sean “forgot” to write is this is a NORMAL procedure when one admin takes over from another. Nothing is decided, just a review of all policies moving forward which must be done. And rightly so since Obummer infected every law and policy with his left-wing agenda, most times going around the democratic process to force legislation and “executive orders” to advance his agenda.
Wonder why NK has nukes, and that’s Obama’s fault? Er, NK has had nukes since they bought the tech from Iran who stole it from Israel. In the 1970’s. Obama was in kindergarten. Gee, he was amazingly powerful even then, right? Why was Israel allowed to break strict law and develop nukes in such a religious-spy-ridden environment? Because Nixon, the proven law-breaking criminal (who needed a freakn Presidential Pardon exactly like Chelsea Manning – Nixon=Manning), again broke the law and pushed the CIA to ignore Israel’s nuke program and Iran’s spies and NK’s buyers and instead focus on Vietnam. Gee that worked out really well, right? Ho Chi Minh famously celebrated FDR and America in 1944. Vietnam could have been avoided so so easily, Walt Rostow is an economic war criminal. Meanwhile alt-religions got hold of America’s nuke tech. Thanks Nixon.
You right wing nut jobs are truly truly dumb as dumb could possibly be. It’s like history is just as ‘real’ to you as the stupid religious books y’all use to motivate your killing each other.
Read history books and understand reality. Stop reading religious books and fomenting your triggers.
Oh, anti-Trump Sean is back with another “he caused the world to flood” article. Trump did this, Trump did that. Reminds me of an elementary schoolyard.
Sean, you lost, time to move on…Maybe you shouldnt have laughed at President Trump’s presidential run before. Those who laugh last, laugh the hardest.
The millisecond Trump dined with Pelosi to keep the government open for business, because McConnell and Ryan hate American business being open and have tried to close American business down for 9 years now, …
YOU lost…
J is PC. J is PC
‘Don’t say that’
‘Don’t say this’
‘You’re triggering my anger, you’re wrong’
‘You’re making my feelings hurty’
‘This journalist said bad things and that’s not nice’
‘GMA should be a safe space for me’
‘Articles about vehicle laws on a vehicle site need trigger warnings’
PC PC PC PC PC PC
Trump 2016 “The world has become far too PC”. He’s right J.
Let’s make America Great Again by having our population slaughter each other on the roads while American Tech businesses are prevented from participating in the market by denying the existence of this particular market.
Yeah Old Trombone. How about a novel idea that PEOPLE ACTUALLY LEARN TO DRIVE BEFORE DRIVING. You expect your doctor to be trained, your airline pilot, maybe even your accountant.
Yes, everyone uses technology, but the pilot had better know how to fly the plane when the technology stops working, and it would be a sad sack of an accountant who couldn’t balance a chequebook or fill out a ledger book by hand.
But then, maybe taking the time to learn, or take a course, to do something properly is just too much for today’s people.
I’m ready to have only fully-trained drivers. Bondurant, Ron Fellows, brand-clubs, yes sir.
As I said above, the remaining 10% of buyers in the market will not sustain GM, or anybody else. Think of Cuba’s half-century-old fleet.
Or we could accept autonomous.
My stepson took driver’s training, he actually took the time to LEARN driving, then he bought himself a brand new car. He still has a lot to learn, but at least he has taken the initiative to learn proper driving. Old Trombone seems to feel that the rest are incapable or unwilling to learn, or maybe they just want to be coddled by technology and the government for all their lives. Driver’s tests need to be way harder to weed out the ones who don’t take driving seriously, anyone can be trained, IF THEY WANT TO BE. Cuba has done quite well with their half-century old fleet, considering it was others who refused to do business with them.
Let me make this real simple:
Only trained drivers means the end of vehicle manufacturing in America. Properly trained drivers like your son are morally wonderful angels, but they only make up 10% of GM buyers.
Allow autonomous, which only idiot-untrained-undrivers will want to buy, and vehicle manufacturers can continue to build businesses and keep techinicians in America, and let them occasionally make something for us.
BMW diehards totally hated them for building the X5. But without the X5, there would be no M cars now, because the market success of the X5 kept BMW afloat after their disastrous Rover affair. M cars make about 1% of the profit that X cars do. M cars are really halo cars, and we would have lost them without X profits.
Untrained idiots will buy autonomous cars which will fund Oppenheimer and Jeuchter and Fehan’s jobs. Don’t stop this.