DSRC Poised To Move Forward, Auto Industry Says

Dedicated short range communications is poised for broad deployment after years of development and testing, and the FCC should move with care on the 5.9 GHz band, DSRC advocates said in a meeting with Public Safety Bureau Chief David Simpson and others at the agency. General Motors will deploy DSRC devices based on existing DSRC rules, “including the existing DSRC channelization requirement, in the Model Year 2017 Cadillac CTS,” the advocates said. “Such vehicles will be equipped with FCC-compliant DSRC radios and available for purchase during calendar year 2016 -- well in advance of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s anticipated mandate that all new light duty vehicles include DSRC devices.” DSRC “needs interference-free access to all 75 megahertz of the licensed 5.9 GHz DSRC spectrum,” said a filing in docket 13-49. Representatives of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Association of Global Automakers, Cisco, Denso and Intelligent Transportation Society of America attended the meeting. The FCC is looking at rules that would allow use of the band for Wi-Fi.