Why road users need to make the right connections

A good article in Ars Technica, “Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars”, focuses on a technology about which I have been hearing very positive things for some time, but which I have not yet seen implemented: C-V2X, or Connected Vehicle to Everything.

Basically, this is a chipset that that allows vehicles to capture information from another vehicle fitted with C-V2X, which transmits its location at a rate of 10 times per second.

Using this precision location system, C-V2X drivers can be warned of the presence of a cyclist on the road even if it is beyond their line of sight, and in the event of an emergency, a collision could be avoided without the need to rely on the driver’s reflexes or the vehicle’s cameras properly capturing the cyclist. thanks to the activation of advanced emergency braking systems that will be standard on all new vehicles in the United States from 2029 and in the European Union from May 2024.

The technology does not use the cell phone network, which could be a problem due to the possible latency of connections with towers or if we are in an area without coverage, and instead uses only a part of its bandwidth to allow direct communication between objects equipped with that chipset or from vehicle to vehicle. In fact, in addition to being fitted on vehicles…