Toyota Powering Forward on DSRC, Automaker Tells FCC

Toyota and Lexus plan to start deployment of dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) systems on vehicles sold in the U.S. starting in 2021, “with the goal of adoption across most of the Toyota and Lexus lineup by the mid-2020s,” Toyota said in an FCC filing. It posted Friday in 13-49, the day after the new 5G Automotive Association presented its vision for a connected future with cellular vehicle-to-everything technology as an alternative to DSRC (see 1804260040). The development “builds on Toyota’s decision to commercialize vehicles equipped with DSRC in Japan starting in 2015,” Toyota said. “As of March 2018, more than 100,000 DSRC-equipped Toyota and Lexus vehicles were on the road in Japan.”