The automotive industry is moving toward car-to-car communication “step...

The automotive industry is moving toward car-to-car communication “step by step,” Bosch executives said at the company’s press conference Monday prior to the start of CES. Luxury and mid-level vehicles today are “partly automated,” they noted, with assisted parking and adaptive cruise control features. Looking ahead, technology will help drivers avoid collisions with “evasive steering” and cars will be able to change lanes in response to cues. The connected vehicle will be a big part of how the industry gets to highly automated driving, which is a decade down the road, executives said. Issues that need to be resolved before car-to-car interaction becomes reality include development of common communication protocols, standardization of hardware, a secure means for transferring data to and from the cloud and a critical mass of equipped vehicles on the road, they said.