Vehicle-to-vehicle communication

Feb 4, 2007, KARIYA, Japan -- DENSO Corporation announced today that it will begin tests of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems on public roads in Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan in April. The Japanese government's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) approved this project as one of the special deregulation zone projects for ubiquitous Internet networking.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication allows vehicles to interact with each other via radio waves by sending and receiving information. This technology is expected to improve traffic safety, such as in the prevention of vehicle collisions.