Small Scale Field Study of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communications for Safety Applications

This decade has seen a major focus in the development of autonomous vehicles around the world. Various types of sensors, communication systems, computational hardware, and the emerging AI technologies play key roles in advancing the research and development of autonomous and connected mobility. Researchers are actively working on technologies that enable vehicles to communicate with each other and with surrounding devices in the environment, which is collectively known as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. The main elements of V2X are Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I). These enable vehicles to transmit public messages between one another or between vehicles and roadside units. In this study, V2V hardware platform from Savari, an automobile communication technologies company with a marketable V2X products, was utilized to explore the inner workings of the technology by setting up small scale field experiment. Research and early results of the experimental tests demonstrate the viability of the technology to improve safety of vehicles on the road.