Following General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra’s announcement earlier this week her US flagship brand Cadillac will begin offering advanced “intelligent and connected” vehicle technologies on some 2017 model year vehicles, Delphi Automotive has said it will supply the technology.
The company said it would be first to sell Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication technology that significantly advances driver alerts.
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The wireless vehicle communication technology extends the range of existing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) functionality. Radio signals transmit traffic data from car to car to alert drivers of potential road hazards; including those beyond the driver’s line of sight or out of the vehicle’s sensor range. This technology can signal a number of traffic situations ahead including road condition hazards, road work, emergency vehicle warning, stationary or slow moving vehicles, traffic jams, accidents, as well as traffic signals or signage indicators.
Delphi already supplies vision and radar systems that warn the driver of a potential accident risk around the vehicle or in its path. The new V2V technology goes a step further by reading radio signals sent from cars that have already detected a traffic situation. This data is then sent to other cars in the vicinity to warn and provide detailed information about the situation, such as location and duration of a construction zone.
Output of the system is said to be highly flexible and can be packaged and partitioned in many different ways for other markets and customers.
Global production should start in 2016 for North America.
“The ability to detect and signal to the driver of danger ahead is a significant leap toward improving driver safety and traffic management,” said Jeff Owens, the supplier’s chief technology officer.
“This technology [will] also… help automakers meet potential government regulations related to V2V communications for automated driving.”
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