By Mark Scribner, transportation policy expert, Competetive Enterprise Institute
During the final days of the Obama administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed its “talking car” mandate.
This would have required new vehicles to come equipped with radios to communicate information to other vehicles in order to convey hazard warnings to drivers.
This was to use a specific communications protocol known as dedicated short-range communications. The proposal was deeply flawed in numerous ways, as CEI pointed out at the time. [Read more…] about Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency considering backdoor subsidies for ‘talking car’ tech