Let's Talk Vehicle to Vehicle

That's the ask in a new a new, man to man letter. The ranking Democrat of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) sent the request to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget's Mick Mulvaney, urging him to act on rulemaking involving the standardization of vehicle to vehicle, or V2V, communication.

A 2016 notice of proposed rulemaking involved requiring dedicated short-range communications, or DSRC, that would be inter-operable in all new vehicles. This follows reports that NHTSA may shelve the V2V proposed rule to reduce regulatory requirements. V2V technology allows vehicles to "talk" to each other to avoid collisions and to alert other vehicles about road hazards

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