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Commentary: V2V Technology Could Prevent Fatal Traffic Accidents

Via TheHill.com

Commentary

33,000 lives: A price too high

By Thomas E. Kern and Jill Ingrassia

Three years ago last month, a school bus full of children on their way to Chesterfield Elementary in New Jersey edged into an intersection and was hit by a loaded dump truck. Of the 25 children on board, fifteen were injured and one, a young girl, was killed.

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation found that connected vehicle technologies under development could have potentially prevented the crash by detecting the approaching truck and providing warnings to the bus driver not to enter the intersection.

These technologies, known as vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication (or jointly as V2X) rely on high-speed signals operating in 75 MHz of airwaves located in the 5.9 GHz band. That spectrum, designated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for V2X communication, enables vehicles to talk to each other and the world around them ten times per second, providing real-time information on each vehicle’s speed and direction needed to prevent crashes.

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