Occupy Corporatism
by Susanne Posel
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Department of Transportation (DoT) will be changing rules based on a “comprehensive research report on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications technology.”
By 2020, all cars should speak to each other with ease after all the retrofitting is completed at an estimated cost of $341 to $350 per car.
Using V2V technology is expected to reduce the number of accidents involving:
• Stop lights
• Blind spots
• Do not pass areas
• Collisions
The NHTSA claims that with V2V technology “592,000 left-turn and intersection crashes a year” could be prevented, resulting in the saving of an estimated 1,083 lives annually.
Anthony Foxx, secretary for the DoT asserts: “This technology could move us from helping people survive crashes to helping them avoid crashes altogether—saving lives, saving money and even saving fuel thanks to the widespread benefits it offers.”
According to the NHTSA: “The information sent between vehicles does not identify those vehicles, but merely contains basic safety data. The system as contemplated contains several layers of security and privacy protection to ensure that vehicles can rely on messages sent from other vehicles.”
Back in February, the DoT announced a push for the development of a short-range radio system that will allow cars to “speak” to one another in an aim to prevent car crashes and other vehicle mishaps.
Referred to as dedicated short-range communications (DSRC), the device uses 3G and 4G cellular networks that are dependent on internet-based services.
Funded by the Joint Program Office (JPO), the DoT and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), this move toward tying vehicles to the internet of things is being sold to the public as a way to ensure “safer driving”.
This technology, called vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) would facilitate one car to communicate with another and trigger the braking system to activate and steering to avoid collisions while warning drivers to avert the potential danger from 300 feet away.
Light-weight vehicles will be required to have wireless chips installed in order for cars to “talk” to each other as they travel down the road.
The DoT asserts that the application of V2V technology will help drivers with:
- Blind spot warnings
- Forward collision warnings
- Sudden braking ahead warnings
- Do not pass warnings
- Intersection collision avoidance and movement assistance
- Approaching emergency vehicle warning
- Vehicle safety inspection
- Transit or emergency vehicle signal priority
- Electronic parking and toll payments
- Commercial vehicle clearance and safety inspections
- In-vehicle signing
- Rollover warning
- Traffic and travel condition data to improve traveler information and maintenance services
David Friedman, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), commented that V2V will “prevent crashes in the first place” and ensure accidents are survivable.
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