The Obama Administration Wants Cars To Play Nice, ‘Talk To Each Other’. Will Companies Agree?

The US regime verbally expressed it is taking a first step toward necessitating future cars and light trucks be equipped with technology that enables them to ‘talk to each other.’

The Obama Administration referred to a research report relinquished by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The report suggested if such systems were made obligatory, virtually 600,000 left-turn and intersection crashes could be facilely evaded. Ensuring such collisions do not take place, should preserve about 1,083 lives and avert countless injuries. The administration has commenced drafting rules to require the technology in incipient conveyances.

How will the cars communicate with each other? At present, there are multiple collision avoidance systems. But they primarily rely on sensors fitted in the car to sense roads and signs. These sensors measure speed and distance and admonish the driver of an impending collision if opportune steps are not taken. Companies like Volvo even have vigorous braking systems that obviate trucks moving at high speed from colliding with conveyances that are in front of them.
But, these sensors still do not ‘interact’ with the sensors fitted in other cars. Hence, there is a plethora of chatter, but zero communication. The Obama administration wants to ascertain cars not only heedfully aurally perceive, but verbalize actively with other cars and engender a homogeneous network of cars that are perpetually ‘in touch’ with the car in front and the one at the back, as well as those in either lane to maintain optimum distance.

Unfortunately, such a network is still has a long way to go. The technology will have to be macrocosmic and conspicuously brand-neutral, and the system will utilize a radio signal to continually transmit a vehicle’s position, heading, speed and other information. Similarly equipped cars and trucks would receive the same information, and their computers would vigilant drivers to an impending collision, reported NDTV

A car would essentially “see” when another car or truck equipped with the same technology was about to run a red light, even if that conveyance were obnubilated around a corner, reported The Walt Street Journal. A car would withal ken when a car several conveyances ahead in a line of traffic had made a sudden stop and vigilant the driver even afore the brake lights of the conveyance directly in front illuminate. The technology that the Obama administration is discussing works up to about 300 yards (275 meters) away.

The administration is hoping communities will opt to invest in the technology, and roadways and traffic lights could commence verbalizing with cars, as well as send caveats of traffic congestion or road hazards ahead in time for drivers to take a safe and time-preserving detour.

Interestingly, the Government visually perceives the two technologies as synergistic and might be expecting them to be cross-operational additionally.