Toyota actively pursuing talking vehicle technology
TOYOTA is planning to start selling car models in 2021 that can talk to each other using short-range wireless technology.
Potentially, this could prevent thousands of accidents each year.
Toyota is looking to get a lead over its rivals by getting its own version of the technology accepted first to give it the very best chance of becoming the standard used by everyone.
At the moment, the US transportation department is considering whether to adopt a pending proposal that would eventually require all vehicles to be fitted with this advanced technology.
Toyota is hoping to adopt this short-range communication system across most of its US new vehicle portfolio by the mid-2020s and that other manufacturers will then do the same.
Back in December 2016 the Obama administration came up with a proposal where all carmakers would be required to adopt such a technology, and it was suggested they be given a period of at least four years to comply. The detail of the proposal insisted all vehicles “speak the same language through a standard technology.”
A specific bandwidth was previously allocated to carmakers for such a technology, which was then referred to as “vehicle-to-vehicle” ( V2V) and “vehicle to infrastructure” ( V2I) communications. Studies have gone on for more than a decade now, but the 5.9 GHz bandwidth has gone largely unused and some in Congress now think it should be allocated for other uses.— Relaxnews