Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technology– Auto portal on the future of cars

Posted by Paul on 16. May 2016

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Imagine you are driving and suddenly coming up to a heavy traffic jam. There is no way you could escape the traffic jam then. If only somebody had informed you about the impending traffic in advance, then you could have slowed down your car and sped away on an alternate route. Well, this is exactly what vehicle-to-vehicle technology does. The numerous cars on the roads are connected to each other through a wireless network and each car sends out the entire information about their drive.Put in simple words, vehicle-to-vehicle technology (V2V) is a system where cars are able to talk with each other while on move.V2V is also known as VANET which means Vehicular Ad Hoc Network.

How it works                           

Under this system, the cars will have a 360 degree communication range of 300 metres up to one kilometre. It would be more like a WI-FI network where every car will be able to send, capture and retransmit signals. All information will be exchanged including a vehicle’s position, and many more. It could also give out information regardingapproaching road conditions, routes, signals, parking space availability, accidents or breakdowns of any particular link. Such a system will surely avoid any accidents and also save lots of time.

Deterrents

Although V2V technology will offer loads of benefits and safety, there are a couple of issues that question the smooth working of the system.Firstly there are concerns about privacy. Secondly if the software system is hacked there could be major traffic jams on roads or cars would be bumping up into each other constantly. The signals can be affected by poor weather as well. Further V2V is going to be a costly affair as the system’s technical framework and management structure has to be hi-tech. It is also not clear as to who would bear this cost – the consumers, automobile manufacturers, transport department, state and local governments or others.

Implementation

Currently this system is nowhere in practice, but there are studies and research going on everywhere. Automobile manufacturers like BMW, Audi, Honda, General Motors, Volvo and Daimler are working hard to liven up this technology. The U.S. Department of Transportation has been conducting studies on this technology along with the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute in Ann Arbor for the past few years.And now United States is the only nation to approve V2V technology and has even plans to make it mandatory by 2017. India is still very far from this technology as our market here is just opening to the idea of hybrid and electric cars.

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