Ex-FCC Chief Technologist Calls for Connected Vehicles Task Force

A professor backed a national task force on connected vehicles to identify applications, look at standards and work with the FCC on a proceeding, in a Day One Project paper Friday. “We could prevent hundreds of thousands of car crashes every year,” said Carnegie Mellon University's Jon Peha, ex-FCC chief technologist. “We could also reduce commute times, fuel consumption, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and the cost of mobile Internet access,” he argued. “Deployment of connected vehicle technology can lay groundwork for better autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. Nevertheless, after two decades of trying, there has been little progress.”