There May Soon be 9,000 ‘Talking’ Cars on Michigan Roads

Luke Vandezande autoguide.com The University of Michigan Transportation Safety Research Institute intends to triple the scale of an ongoing experiment currently using roughly 3,000 connected cars in Ann Arbor, Mich. By scaling the project up to roughly 9,000 vehicles, the project would learn more about large-scale implementation of the systems. The project aims to learn more about potential safety benefits from vehicles that are able to gather information being sent between vehicles and from wireless communication devices built into infrastructure. Since starting in the summer of 2012, the project has collected data on four million trips and 25 million driven miles... Currently, there are eight automakers participating in the project, which aims to determine whether or not connected car technologies would present safety benefits worth the investment they would require.