Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technologies—the Future of Road Safety?
(Excerpted from GAO-14-13)
(Excerpted from GAO-14-13)
- Nearly all vehicles on the road would need V2V technologies to achieve significant safety benefits;
- Drivers must still respond to the V2V warnings. If drivers are, for example, distracted, V2Vs may be less effective;
- The costs of equipping vehicles with V2Vs are unknown. While many experts we met with said that the costs of equipping vehicles with V2Vs are not likely to be significant, the costs of a system needed to ensure the security of the data transmitted between vehicles could be; and
- Overcoming potential privacy concerns of drivers and the public in a system that involves sharing data among vehicles could hamper development and adoption.
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