Best Driverless Tech Going Nowhere as Regs Stall Under Trump
- Vehicle-to-vehicle systems give autos a sense of surroundings
- Without a mandate, ‘nobody is going to put it on their cars’
Waymo CEO on Future of Autonomous Vehicles
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The technology that gives cars superpowers to see around corners and through walls won’t be on the first self-driving rides hitting the road in the next few years.
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, known as V2V, are regarded as essential for fully automated travel, which could dramatically reduce traffic fatalities from around 40,000 in the U.S. last year. The tech enables cars to send signals back and forth to one another, improving their ability to foresee potential collisions and avert them.