Self-driving cars on Florida roads may be closer to reality than many people think. Autonomous and connected vehicles (CV) in the Tampa Bay area was one of the leading topics of the third annual Florida Automated Vehicles Summit, held in Jacksonville Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tampa’s $17 million planned experimental venture into connected car technology will take center stage next week among hundreds of experts from across the nation gathered at the Florida Automated Vehicle Summit in Jacksonville.

Tampa will be among the first cities in the country to participate in a pilot program that will allow vehicles to communicate with each other about traffic conditions, which would improve safety and reduce traffic jams.

Recent progress with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) brings connected cars or V2X — connectivity between vehicles, infrastructure and all road users — closer to reality than ever before. If all goes well, an NHTSA mandate on DSRC in new light vehicles is expected to start around 2020 as a phase-in plan, with completion around 2025.

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently selected Wyoming’s Interstate 80 Corridor for its Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program.  The goal is to reduce the number of accidents that result from adverse weather conditions while improving safety and freight mobility.

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently selected Wyoming’s Interstate 80 Corridor for its Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program.  The goal is to reduce the number of accidents that result from adverse weather conditions while improving safety and freight mobility.

Wyoming is one of three locations in the country where next-generation “smart vehicles” that could make highway driving less dangerous will be tested.

A federal grant will let Wyoming test next-generation “smart vehicles” that could make highway driving less dangerous.

Imagine that you’re driving and you approach a blind corner. What you don’t know is that another car is approaching at a high rate of speed. Then, your car automatically stops – avoiding a collision on its own. 

The city’s streets will soon be a lot smarter.

The U.S. Department of Transportation picked the city for a pilot program that retrofits vehicles with a new ‘connected vehicle technology’

Stepping off a curb in Manhattan can be a frightening experience: buzzing cabs, fast buses, hoards of tourists. But the Department of Transportation and New York City are investing in technology that might make it a slightly less terrifying one.

New York City will be the main testing ground for a smart device installed in vehicles to warn motorists of impending dangers and congestion, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Monday.

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Cities around the world are coming to the same conclusion: they’d be better off with far fewer cars. So what’s behind this seismic shift in our urban lifestyles? Stephen Moss goes on an epic (car-free) journey to find out