As reported earlier, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled plans to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle technology within the next few years through a proposal that could take just as long to make it through Congress. Since then, more details and reactions about the V2V proposal have come out.
Autoblog reports the plan, which will be available for public comment for the next 60 days, points to two specific applications of V2V that could prevent as many as 592,000 accidents and 1,083 fatalities annually by 2020 if implemented: left-turn assist and intersection-movement detection systems. The agency also adds V2V could be used to aid with detecting blind spots, alert drivers regarding forward collision, and warn them when not to pass on the road. Many of these systems are already in modern vehicles, where radar and similar technologies help in functionality.
As far as the potential for hacking is concerned, the NHTSA stated V2V data transmitted would only be used in enhancing driver safety, with “several layers” of protection keeping hackers at bay. In turn, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said in a statement that the Federal Communications Commission should reserve certain frequencies for V2V communication in the early phases of development “until it is definitively established that sharing will not interfere with the safety of the driving public.”
In addition to V2V, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication is in the proposal, allowing for vehicles to talk to roads and other pieces of infrastructure for safety purposes.
The proposal is set to make its run toward becoming law beginning in 2016 at the earliest.
Going to need more details about the porn- sharing features.
No thanks you. On so many levels.
Lots of levels. That’s deep.
This. Can we get a new government that doesn’t insist on forcing us to rely on electronic nannies every second of our lives?
Safety is always the rationale.
Will there be bolt-on rooftop units so the 15-year old minivan on 4 different bald tires and loaded with exhausted, drunk illegals can communicate with my spankin’ new, state of the art, Precious Person’s ride?
That mandate comes later.
There is not enough software, communication, and hardware knowhow in metro Detroit to make any of this proposal happen.
Unlike the brain trust of Tatted Lard, Arkansas?
I’m all-in if this automatically issues tickets to those people that speed up as soon as they see you turn on your blinker.
Now the information on where your car has been and how it has been driven can be downloaded without anyone ever touching your car. That should help make you safer.
They have most of that info now if you have an ezpass type of gadget in your car or use a cell phone in the car, this just makes it easier. What could go wrong here with so much software and such , computers never have issues….
It is inevitable anyway. People want it or don’t care. It is coming.
Now police will track were you are all the time? This may really suck!
Advances in safety and the mandates that ensure they get implemented have been responsible for the steady decline of road fatalities per million miles traveled from 240 in the 1920s to high teens today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_United_States#mediaviewer/File:USA_annual_VMT_vs_deaths_per_VMT.png
And every time there are new regulations, there is an outcry. For those old enough to remember the 70s, you will recall the editorial outrage of mandatory seat belts which were hailed as the spearhead of total government control.
I love my personal freedoms but I just don’t see the sense in a movement opposing the reduction in the death toll of 38,000 American’s per year (a cause of death probability of 1:112 according to NSC) with communication electronics when at the same time we have handed over our 4th amendment rights to the NSA and spent trillions over a terrorist threat that is 1 in 20,000,000 (where animal bites rate at 104,000:1 and lighting rates at 130,000:1).
Maybe its true that we Americans are not very good at maths.
“Maybe its true that we Americans are not very good at maths.”
We also never call it “maths”, mate.
Agreed. You ain’t no American, cowboy.
“And every time there are new regulations, there is an outcry.”
This terrible argument justifies EVERY new regulation, regardless of cost, effectiveness, or consequences.
So, this will tell me when I shouldn’t pass? What could possibly go wrong.
So, what will it do when a scrapper in an old F150 dumps half his load?
If I’m passing someone, and slightly exceed the speed limit to cut back in safely, everyone knows. That’s great!
If you can’t figure out how to pass someone safely, you shouldn’t be driving a car.
Everyone needs to leave a comment for this at: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NHTSA-2014-0022
I did it, and it only takes three or four minutes. Lets put our money where our mouth is!
Self-driving cars will solve all that, go Google!
then again, driving will no longer be fun, I shall miss the good old days!