The impact of accommodated vehicle to vehicle communication

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Abstract

In the 21st century, American daily lives consist of taking a risk by doing nothing more than stepping into a vehicle and driving to work. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported an estimated 6.3 million vehicle crashes nationwide in 2015. While researchers in the automotive industry have made passenger safety a priority, in today's vehicles there is a lot of ground to cover. Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication is a system where vehicles send messages to each other about their GPS coordinates, speed, and other factors to calculate the potential of a collision. Even though studies are still in progress, research shows that V2V technology has the ability to decrease collisions by gathering information from other vehicles through a communication network in real time and acting on that data. V2V technology addresses human error in driving and provides a safety monitor to warn drivers of potential collisions. This study offers a design of a simulation that demonstrates the impact of public involvement with vehicles accommodated with the V2V safety feature, potentially creating a safer road system.

Author

• Dominic Carrillo, Sul Ross State University