Visteon, in collaboration with Cohda Wireless, is providing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications equipment for the US Department of Transportation Safety Pilot programme, which was launched in late August. The project aims to demonstrate significant improvements in driver awareness including collision, hazardous road and curve speed warnings and traffic flow information.
The Safety Pilot programme is led by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and will integrate 5.9GHz dedicated short range communication devices in more than 2,800 vehicles to test their ability to wirelessly communicate from vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) – these being collectively known as V2X technology.
Test vehicles will continuously receive location and status information from nearby test vehicles, along with their speed and projected path. Vehicles will also communicate with roadside units along highways and intersections.
Visteon says it views V2X technology as a natural extension of the current connectivity, driver information and advanced human machine interaction systems it supplies to OEMs. Visteon is working with Cohda Wireless, “a recognised leader in V2X radio technology,” to deliver solutions for what it terms the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) market.
