Chinese Carmaker Is Testing Car-to-Car Communications

By: Will Knight

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells

One of China's leading carmakers is testing technology that promises to prevent accidents and ease congestion by allowing vehicles as well as traffic signals to communicate wirelessly. Although no standard for the technology has emerged in China yet, representatives at the company say it could introduce some form of car-to-car communications in 2018, ahead of many US automakers. Changan, a state owned car manufacturer based in Chongquing, in central China, is testing so-called vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology at its US R&D center in Plymouth, Michigan.©2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P)2015 Audible, Inc.