It was supposed to make driving much safer. But reports that technology to have vehicles communicate with each other is getting serious resistance.
In it’s dying days, the Obama administration proposed that all new vehicles have systems that would warn each other before impending crashes. The Transportation Department declared that the rules would eliminate 80 percent of collisions. The deadline for comment was last Friday. More than 400 objections were filed. The Alliance of Auto Manufacturers, the major industry trade group, asked for more time and greater clarity of the rules. Tesla says V2V should be up to the industry, not government mandate.
Other groups say by the time a policy comes out, the technology will be obsolete.
Cable TV objects to vehicles using the public airwaves while tech companies look to expand wireless. V2V is now in the hands of the Trump administration. No chief administrator has been chosen yet for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency which would direct such a policy.