The drastic increase in the number of road accidents has instigated the US administration to accelerate the implementation of car-to-car communication. This V2V technology is believed to increase road safety and enable self-driving on the roads. The technique will produce a car on the car market that can drive itself way better than a human driver operating the vehicle.
The vehicle-to-vehicle communication has been tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to prove that this technology can accomplish particular tasks in car assessment as regards to deciding on when to overtake another car, change a lane while on the road and when to enter into an intersection with limited visibility.
An additional fee of $350 dollars in added to each car price of the cars using the V2V system. A big number of accidents can be avoided if all cars on the road have the V2V system imbedded in them though it will take time since over thousands of cars on road can’t be easily monitored to ensure that all deploy that technology and the infrastructure has to be upgraded to fit in the system.
There is a positive response as regards the V2V from the great car manufacturing companies like Toyota, Honda and Nissan which hope to implement the system soon in their future cars. The system should be made suitable to the smart phones and tablets so that people can use them monitor the cars. The vehicles are expected to have the ability to alert other cars on a network in case a particular route has issues like an accident, traffic congestion and road check points among others. This can also be a disadvantage in case some malicious person hacks into the car system to create various false route alerts which may cause traffic to break down.
