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January 19th, 2016 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
In an interesting move, 17 auto manufacturers agreed to work with the Department of Transportation (DoT) on creating “proactive safety principles” so that problems are resolved before the public is placed in harm’s way.
This new relationship between the DoT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and giants in the auto industry have come together for the sake of the future of driverless cars.
At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), Anthony Foxx, secretary of the DoT, delivered a speech alongside Mary Barra, chief executive officer for General Motors (GM) and other big wigs in the industry to declare that “automakers and regulators will study whether the aviation industry’s voluntary safety reporting can be applied to autos, and they agreed to look at using big data to spot and report safety problems faster.”
In addition, there will be more attention to detail concerning recall repairs; as well as sharing of cybersecurity information between the industry and the federal government.
Foxx intends to use verbiage from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety management agreement with commercial airline corporations, and apply those same regulations onto automakers because it “drastically reduced aviation accidents” and could do the same for self-driving cars.
The DoT secretary explained that sharing safety data with the FAA “and its stakeholders” could have a profound effect on safety precautions and actions taken when manufacturing safer vehicles.
Per President Obama’s State of the Union speech, Foxx revealed that over the next decade, the US government will invest nearly $4 billion “to accelerate the development and adoption of safe vehicle automation through real-world pilot projects.”
This announcement coincides with the DoT’s announcement in 2014 that the agency will push for the development of a short-range radio system that will allow cars to “speak” to one another in an aim to prevent car crashes and other vehicle mishaps.
Referred to as dedicated short-range communications (DSRC), the device uses 3G and 4G cellular networks that are dependent on internet-based services.
Funded by the Joint Program Office (JPO), the DoT and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), this move toward tying vehicles to the internet of things is being sold to the public as a way to ensure “safer driving”.
This technology, called vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) would facilitate one car to communicate with another and trigger the braking system to activate and steering to avoid collisions while warning drivers to avert the potential danger from 300 feet away.
Light-weight vehicles will be required to have wireless chips installed in order for cars to “talk” to each other as they travel down the road.
The DoT asserts that the application of V2V technology will help drivers with:
- Blind spot warnings
- Forward collision warnings
- Sudden braking ahead warnings
- Do not pass warnings
- Intersection collision avoidance and movement assistance
- Approaching emergency vehicle warning
- Vehicle safety inspection
- Transit or emergency vehicle signal priority
- Electronic parking and toll payments
- Commercial vehicle clearance and safety inspections
- In-vehicle signing
- Rollover warning
- Traffic and travel condition data to improve traveler information and maintenance services
In thinking forward, IHS Automotive released a study several years ago asserting that autonomous cars will over-take our roadways and replace the human driver forever.
Full autonomous cars, without a human at the wheel or manipulating the pedals will be a reality by 2030; leading into the “bulk of automotive sales” being autonomous vehicles.
This is tantamount to 54 million self-driving cars (SDC) on the road within 2 decades.
SDCs will be energy efficient, expel less carbon and contribute to the decline of air pollution worldwide.
Because SDCs would necessitate access and communications on a wireless network, they would be subject to hackers and require cybersecurity measures for protection.
The study acknowledges: “There is no question that electronics of the car will become a target for malicious hacking attacks. Every auto manufacturer needs to take cyber security seriously — which has not been a focus in the past.”
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