NETWORKING WI-FI TECHNOLOGY IS MANDATORY IN FUTURE VEHICLES

 "The U.S government is moving on new rules requiring future vehicles come with Wi-Fi technology necessary for cars to communicate with one another. The goal is to prevent accidents,but networked cars could become much more."




                For the last two years,automakers and the U.S Department of Transportation have been investigating the idea of cars talking to one another,putting thousands of Wi-Fi connected smart vehicles on a track in at the University of Michigan to see if they could /cooperate with another car and avoid accidents.Apparently the feds are convinced Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is kicking off a process that will one day make inter-networking a requirement in all new vehicles.
                     

Vehicle networking technologies developed by Cohda Wireless would let cars "see" around corners.

                        The Technology is called Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications, or V2V for short, and NHTSA is billing it as a safety technology similar to seat belts and airbags.By exchanging anonymous, vehicle-based data regarding position, speed, and location (at a minimum), V2V communications enables a vehicle to: sense threats and hazards with a 360 degree awareness of the position of other vehicles and the threat or hazard they present; calculate risk; issue driver advisories or warnings; or take pre-emptive actions to avoid and mitigate crashes. A car that can communicate its intentions, can let other vehicles,can let other vehicles know if it's slamming on its brakes or just turned on its blinker, signalling a lane change. Drivers could then react to those cues,helping them avoid accidents.

           "V2V crash avoidance technology has game-changing potential to significantly reduce the number of crashes, injuries and deaths on nation's roads. Decades from now, it's likely we'll look back at the time period as one in which the historical arc of transportation safety considerably changed for better, similar to the introduction of standards for seat belts,airbags, and electronic stability control technology."But the V2V and it's sister technology vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) could evove into something much greater. Instead of using the familiar Wi-Fi called 802.11p,which allows for long-rnage secure transmissions between vehicles. What's the more 802.11p would allow those cars to form gigantic mesh networks.So networked cars wouldn't just be talking to their neighbors,but vehicles miles down the road and the highway and traffic systems around them.

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