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December 6, 2011
If these cars could talk
A $14.9 million program run by U-M's Transportation Research Institute is testing the safety of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure wireless communication. This study, the largest of its kind, examines cars that can "talk" to each other and to the roads, traffic lights and signals around them and evaluates how well they ease traffic congestion, reduce crashes and save time and fuel.