Connected Vehicle Trade Association is exploring potential benefits of two-way car communications using GPS and wireless technologies. The group believes 83 percent of unimpaired vehicle-related fatalities might be avoided by boosting vehicular intelligence. Still, any technology capable of transmitting personal data and controlling our cars could be abused by hackers. The system’s wireless spectrum lives at 5.9GHz and has been reserved for that purpose since 1998. There are no centralized computers. The vehicle communication standard is part of IEEE working group 1609.”]
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