{"id":10109,"date":"2014-02-08T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:07","slug":"u-s-agencies-take-significant-step-toward-wirelessly-connecting-vehicles-to-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/u-s-agencies-take-significant-step-toward-wirelessly-connecting-vehicles-to-one-another","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72867\" alt=\"usdot-v2v-alerts\" src=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" data-cfsrc=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cars that retain their human drivers despite <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/01\/16\/is-the-ihs-forecast-of-54-million-self-driving-cars-by-2035-too-conservative\/\">growing numbers of self-driving vehicles<\/a> will gain automated safe-driving features in the United States, according to an announcement this week that U.S. federal agencies will encourage vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, communication technology for passenger vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal relates to a kind of internet in which the connected computers are cars and trucks sharing data about speed, position and nearby traffic signals ten times a second in order to reduce accidents. If two cars on a three-lane road simultaneously attempted to switch into the center lane, for example, the V2V system could warn both drivers. Alternately, if a car two vehicles ahead brakes, the third driver could be alerted whether or not the middle driver braked immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Cars that retain their human drivers despite growing numbers of self-driving vehicles will gain automated safe-driving features in the United States, according to an announcement this week that U.S. federal agencies will encourage vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, communication technology for passenger vehicles.  The proposal relates to a kind of internet in which the connected computers are cars and trucks sharing data about speed, position and nearby traffic signals ten times a second in order to reduce accidents. If two cars on a three-lane road simultaneously attempted to switch into the center lane, for example, the V2V system could warn both drivers. Alternately, if a car two vehicles ahead brakes, the third driver could be alerted whether or not the middle driver braked immediately.\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub Cars that retain their human drivers despite growing numbers of self-driving vehicles will gain automated safe-driving features in the United States, according to an announcement this week that U.S. federal agencies will encourage vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, communication technology for passenger vehicles. The proposal relates to a kind of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1521],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driverless-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47240,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/47240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}