NEW YORK: Engineers have known for some time that if cars could only "talk" to each other, they could avoid a lot of accidents.
Vehicles could be driven more safely with information about another car, obstacle or pedestrian around a blind curve, for example.
But the hurdles to implementing these systems are numerous: they require a legal framework and the allocation of wireless spectrum to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications.
The US administration announced this month it was speeding up efforts to promote V2V in a push for better road safety and to help facilitate the self-driving cars which are on the horizon.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said during a visit to Silicon Valley that he hopes to have regulations for these technologies by the end of the year.
"We're accelerating our timetable on a proposed rule that would require vehicle-to-vehicle -- or V2V -- technology that allows cars to 'talk' to one another," Foxx said.
"And it is something that we believe can have a huge impact on preventing accidents from ever happening -- and in helping us eventually produce a car that can drive itself better than a human can."
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