New rules. Regulations to Require Cars to Talk to each other?

The future is here. U.S. Department of Transportation is proposing new rules to require new cars to talk to each other.

What will cars be saying to each other? Cars will be required to broadcast data to one another about:

• speed
• location
• direction

What’s an example? To ward off collisions, cars would be able to:

• Use wireless technology to detect if another vehicle around the corner & 100s of yards away was going too fast in its direction & if they were headed for a collision

Rulemaking:

• 3 months of public comment
• 2 years before implementation would get 1/2 of all new cars to comply

NY Times | Cars Talking to One Another? They Could Under Proposed Safety Rules