Re-posted from the DeseretNews
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SALT LAKE CITY — Imagine a sentient roadway that was able to text you a heads-up about black ice on that curve ahead or share an advisory about a dangerously aggressive driver that’s coming up fast behind you.
While autonomous vehicles will one day — and in the not-too-distant future — dramatically reduce the mostly human-induced hazards of driving, new technology now being tested in Utah could start saving lives and time stuck in traffic in just the next few years.
V2X (meaning vehicle-to-everything) communications technology is the brains behind a system that allows automobiles to communicate to each other and the outside world details about what’s happening in the vehicle. Those include things like speed, location, if the windshield wipers are on, whether anti-lock brakes or anti-skid mechanisms have been engaged and outside ambient temperatures. This information, when gathered from multiple vehicles in a particular area can then be processed to pinpoint in real-time approaching accident scenes, inclement weather, hazardous road conditions or even the erratic maneuvers of an impaired or aggressive driver.